School Climate Assessment. 1. The District will conduct a school climate assessment at each school in the District, including a student and parent survey, during the 2016-2017 school year to assess the extent to which students are subjected to or witness sexual harassment by any party, whether such sexual harassment is reported to school staff and if not, why, and the effectiveness of school sexual harassment response and prevention efforts. At Palo Alto and Xxxx High Schools, this survey shall include questions regarding maintenance of appropriate boundaries between staff and students. The District may modify an existing survey, such as the California Healthy Kids Survey or other climate assessment conducted by the school site, provided that the survey asks specific questions sufficient to assess the areas described in this section. The survey will be administered using the District’s established method of parental notification and consent.
2. The District will provide a copy of and discuss the results of the school climate survey described with the District’s Safe and Welcoming Schools Committee and consider whether additional steps should be taken to strengthen the District’s school climate programs and activities in response to the survey results.
School Climate Assessment. In coordination with the Investigator, the District will develop and administer three school climate surveys to students, parents, and employees at the School before the end of the 2022- 2023 school year. The Investigator will make recommendations to the District about the surveys’ content and method of administration to ensure both are effective. The District will notify parents of current students and students who were enrolled at the School in the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 school years of an opportunity to provide input about the survey to the Investigator, consistent with Arizona Revised Statutes 15-117. The Investigator’s recommendations to the District for the climate surveys will address, at a minimum:
1. the prevalence of race-, color-, or national origin-based harassment in the School;
2. the willingness to report incidents of harassment to School and District personnel;
3. the perception of the School’s and District’s handling of reports and complaints of harassment; and
4. suggestions for reducing incidents of harassment in the School and improving the District’s response to reports and complaints of harassment. The District will incorporate the Investigator’s recommendations into its development and administration of the climate surveys to the School’s (a) students, (b) parents, and (c) employees, including any school resource officers (whether employees or contractors). Prior to administering the school climate surveys to the School’s students, the District will provide to parents a notice explaining the purpose of the climate survey, a copy of the survey, and the opportunity to opt in the parents’ child for participation in the survey through a written form. implement the survey. The District will promptly and fully address OCR’s feedback, if any, until the District receives OCR’s final approval of the surveys, and notice from OCR that no further reporting is required for Reporting Requirement 4.
School Climate Assessment. 1. The District will conduct a school climate assessment at each school in the District, with a particular focus on Palo Alto and Xxxx High Schools, including a student and parent survey, during the 2016-2017 school year to assess the extent to which students are subjected to or witness sexual harassment by any party, whether such harassment is reported to school staff and if not, why, and the effectiveness of school harassment response and prevention efforts. The District may modify an existing survey, such as the California Healthy Kids Survey or other climate assessment conducted by the school site, provided that the survey asks specific questions sufficient to assess the areas described in this section. The survey will be administered using the District’s established method of parental notification and consent.
2. The District will provide a copy of and discuss the results of the school climate survey described with the District’s Safe and Welcoming Schools Committee and consider whether additional steps should be taken to strengthen the District’s school climate programs and activities in response to the survey results.
School Climate Assessment. The District will conduct a school climate assessment at each school in the District, including a student and parent survey, during the 2016-2017 school year to assess the extent to which students are subjected to or witness sexual harassment by any party, whether such sexual harassment is reported to school staff and if not, why, and the effectiveness of school sexual harassment response and prevention efforts. At Palo Alto and Xxxx High Schools, this survey shall include questions regarding maintenance of appropriate boundaries between staff and students. The District may modify an existing survey, such as the California Healthy Kids Survey or other climate assessment conducted by the school site, provided that the survey asks specific questions sufficient to assess the areas described in this section. The survey will be administered using the District’s established method of parental notification and consent. The District will provide a copy of and discuss the results of the school climate survey described with the District’s Safe and Welcoming Schools Committee and consider whether additional steps should be taken to strengthen the District’s school climate programs and activities in response to the survey results. The District will conduct an investigation into: reports the District received during the 2013-2014 school year that the former Principal at Palo Alto High School (PAHS) sexually harassed students and address all the information obtained during the investigation to determine whether remedial actions or services are needed; whether staff in the District or at the school-site should be provided training for failing to report the behavior. reports the District received in 2007 and 2013 regarding a former teacher at PAHS who had been subject to investigations regarding alleged crossing of professional boundaries for the purpose of cultivating an inappropriate relationship with former student(s) in order to determine whether there are any other affected current or former students and whether they require remedial actions or services; as it pertains to investigations in E.1.a. and b. above, determine whether staff in the District or at the school-site should be provided training for enabling or failing to report behavior if such findings are made; reports the District received of an off-campus sexual assault during the 2012-13 school year and the March 2014 off campus incident related to PAHS; and The investigations described in E.1 a-d will be co...
