IMMUNIZATION OF STUDENTS
 
No student shall be permitted to attend or continue to attend any school in this District without first meeting legal immunization requirements or obtaining exemption from such requirements for health, religious, or personal reasons, as provided by law.
 
A student's parent or legal guardian is responsible either for having the student immunized as required by law or for receiving legal exemption from immunization. Such responsibility falls to the student if he is emancipated or is eighteen years of age or older. Upon request by a parent/legal guardian/emancipated student or student eighteen years of age or older, the District will make available information it may have related to low-or no-cost immunizations that are offered by the local Department of Health and/or other organizations.
 
In the event a parent/legal guardian/emancipated student or student eighteen years of age or older does not comply with legal immunization requirements, and the student has not been exempted from such requirements, the student shall be denied admission or suspended and/or expelled from school until such requirements are met, following receipt of direct personal notice of noncompliance and notice of rights, where applicable, from the school principal (or designee).
 
Records relating to a student's denial of admission, suspension, or expulsion pursuant to this policy shall be maintained in the student=s health file. No such denial of admission, suspension or expulsion shall be reflected in the school's or District's dropout rate as reported to the state. Expulsions that occur pursuant to this policy shall, however, be included in the annual report to the State of Education as required by C.R.S. ' 22-33-105(2.5) and shall be annually reported to the State Board of Education pursuant to C.R.S. ' 25-4-907. In addition, the Superintendent (or designee) shall notify the state Department of Public Health and environment or the local Health Department regarding denials of admission, suspensions and expulsions that occur pursuant to this policy.
 
Adopted, July 15, 1979
Revised, September, 1997
 
LEGAL REFS.: C.R.S. 22-33-105(2.5)
C.R.S. 22-33-106 (3)(e)
C.R.S. 25-4-901 et seq.
6 CCR 1009-2
CROSS REFS.:
JHD, Exclusions and Exemptions from School Attendance
JKD/JKE, Student Suspension/Expulsion
JRAJRC, Student Records
 
Colorado Springs School District Eleven, Colorado Springs Colorado
September, 1997
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