Kansas Statutes for KSDE

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A

Absences from school, unexcused 72-3121
Abstaining from vote, board of education 72-1138
Abuse of children, generally 38-2201 et seq.

Academic achievement of pupils, report on 72-3219
Access to public buildings and facilities, specifications for the handicapped 58-1301 et seq.
Accessed valuation

  • Certification of 79-5a27
  • Extension of valuations, director of property valuation 79-1404(17)

Accident insurance 72-1881

Accounting (See also Auditing)

Accounts against school must be itemized and certified 10-802, 12-105b
Account with county treasurer, charges and credits 19-312, 19-318
Accrediting colleges, teacher training,

Acquisition of land, bonds for (See also Bonds) 10-121
Activities Association, Kansas State High School 72-7114 to 72-7118
Activities fee authorized 72-3353
Activity funds authorized 72-1178
Administrators, standards board 72-2308 et seq.

  • Responsibilities and duties 72-2312
  • Shared services, interdistrict agreements 72-13,102

Administrator nonrenewal 72-2281 et seq.
Admission of pupils from other districts 72-3123

Admissions to state universities and colleges 76-717b
Adult education act

Advisory commission, Kansas state library 75-2546
Advisory council, developmental disabilities services 74-5501
Advisory council, special education 72-3408
Age of entrance, public schools 72-3118
Age of majority 38-101
Age, school service retirement system 72-2629
Agreements

Aides, teacher (See also Paraprofessionals) 72-3115
Alcohol and drug abuse programs for pupils 72-6272

Alcoholic liquors in public places forbidden 41-719
Alcoholic liquors (See also, Cereal Malt Beverages)

  • Furnishing cereal malt beverages to minors 21-3610a
  • Unlawful acts by minors 41-715

Alcoholism, drug abuse programs, pupils 72-6272
Employee assistance 72-2571
Allegiance, pledge of to the flag 72-9928
Alternative schools 72-4241
American Indian Day 35-205
American sign language, constitutes foreign language 72-3251 et seq.
Annexation by cities, no effect on unified district boundaries 72-6779
Annexation of territory, change in boundary, taxation 72-523
Annual audit of accounts, school districts 75-1122, 75-1125
Annual budget, school district 72-1162

Annual statement of indebtedness, municipalities 10-1007a

  • Audit program, minimum standards 75-1123

 Retirement system, defined 72-2624

Application for federal funds, school districts 72-5537
Appointment of employees, school districts 72-1134 to 72-1137
Appropriation of funds 79-2934
Approval of claims 12-105a, 12-105b
Arbitration, professional negotiations 72-2229
Arbitration, Public Employees Relation Board (P.E.R.B) 75-4330
Arbor Day 35-204
Area advisory councils, vocational education 74-32,410
Area vocational schools (See Vocational education)
Area vocational-technical schools (See Vocational education)
Armories, assistance of school district 48-308
Art (See Kansas Arts Commission)
Asbestos control projects, bonds for 12-5401

  • Capital outlay tax levy for 72-53,113 et seq.

Assessments levied by other municipality, tax to pay 79-1808
Assessments, academic, report of 72-3219
Assessments, special, city improvements 10-114, 10-115
Assets, transfer of

  • Consolidation of districts 72-715
  • Disorganization of school districts 72-634 et seq.

Assignments, bonds 10-602
Assistance, employee programs 72-2571
Athletic field, city of first class 13-1356 to 13-1357

Attachment of territory

Attendance

Attendance, out-of-state (K-12 students) 72-3125
Attorney fees, boards of education 72-1138
Attorney general

  • Adjustment of board member district boundaries 72-1077
  • Advisor to state board 75-704
  • Approval of interlocal agreements 12-2904
  • Prosecution of official bonds or contracts 75-703

Audiometer testing 72-6228 to 72-6231
Audit, reports, filing 75-1124
Auditing (See also Accounting)

Auxiliary services, private school pupils 72-3461

  • Conditions for provision 72-3462
  • Religious activity prohibited 72-3463

B

Balanced budget required, exception 79-2927
Balances budget not required;

Balances, use of, budget law 79-2934
Ballots (See Elections) Banks and banking, code, definitions 9-701
Banks, deposits of public moneys 9-1401, 10-131, 12-1675 et seq.

Basic Skills Reading Program 72-292
Bequests, school districts 72-1142, 72-3216
Bible readings 72-3120 (d), 72-9930

Bid law, amendments to bids 75-6901 et seq.
Bids, sealed, required when 72-1151
Bilingual education programs 72-3609 to 72-3614
Birth certificates 72-9934
Blind, deaf, severely handicapped 72-3481
Braille, instruction in 72-3471

Blind, purchase of products from 72-1151, 75-3317 to 75-3321
Board of education Abstaining from vote 72-1138

Boards, election (See Elections)

Board's duties, professional negotiation act 72-2228
Boiler insurance 72-1878
Bond elections (See also Bonds) 72-5457
Bond, labor and materials (public works bond) 60-1111
Bond limitation, exceeding (USDs) 72-5458 to 72-5461
Bond maturity 10-103, 10-428
Bond proceeds, disorganized district 72-635, 72-639
Bonded indebtedness assumed, consolidation of districts 72-714
Bonded indebtedness assumed, disorganization of district 72-637, 72-638
Bonded indebtedness, unified school district

Bonds, Generally 10-101 et seq.

C

Campaign finance act, USD’s 25-901 et seq. Cancelable purchase orders 10-1113
Cancellation, municipal bonds 10-110, 10-111
Cancellation of bonds by state treasurer 10-110
Cancellation of certain checks, reversion of money 10-508, 10-509
Cancellation of teachers’ certificates 72-2155
Capital improvements, school district, state aid entitlement 72-5462
Capital outlay levy (USDs) 72-53,113 et seq.

Career opportunities, access to students 72-9932

Cash-basis law 10-1101 et seq.

Cash, petty, board of education 72-1177
Census

Cerebral palsied children (See Exceptional children)
Certificate of health (school personnel) 72-6266 Certificate of inspection, dental 72-6253
Certificates (See also Teachers’ certificates)

Certificates of deposit (investment of idle funds) 9-701, 12-1675
Certification

Certifying levies 79-1801
Challenge to secondary school pupils, Kansas 72-3220 et seq.
Change in boundary, annexation of territory, taxation 79-1807
Change in boundary, taxation 72-523, 79-1807
Change in boundary, board member districts, notice 72-1077
Change in method of election Unified school districts 72-1081 et seq.
Changes in payroll periods 75-5503, 75-5504
Charter schools 72-4206 et seq.
Checks and Warrants; signature on 10-803

Child abuse 38-1501 et seq.

Child care authorized 72-1421
Child care programs, recreation centers and schools, licensing of 65-527
Child labor 38-601 et seq.
Child, neglected or dependent 38-1501 et seq.

Children (See also Child abuse)

  • Abuse of 38-1501 et seq.
  • Exceptional (handicapped and gifted) 72-3403 et seq.
  • Handicapped, coordinating council for 74-6301 et seq.

Church schools, compulsory school attendance 72-3120
Cities, annexation by, no effect on unified district boundaries 72-515
Citizens and citizenship, courses of study 72-3214, 72-3217
City community building, joint control with school district 12-1769
City improvements, special assessments 10-114

Claims (See also Audits) Authorization of payment 10-802

Claims, uniform act 12-105a, 12-105b
Clerk of board, unified school district 72-1135
Clerks, cash-basis law, unlawful acts 10-1114
Closing attendance facilities 72-1431

  • Fire marshal's orders 31-144

Closing of county superintendent's office 72-7801
Closing of schools, procedure 72-1431

Collective negotiation act (See Professional negotiation act)
College enrollment for high school students 72-3220 et seq.
College savings program 75-640 et seq.                                                                                                                                                                                  Colleges accredited for teacher training 72-2151, 72-2152, 72-2153
Commercial driver training schools 8-273 et seq.
Commercial driver's licenses; diversion agreements not allowed for license holders 8-2,150
Commercial driver's licenses; school bus endorsement; waiver of driving skills test requirements 8-2,149
Commissioner of education (See also State Board of Education) 72-371, 72-372
Compensation, deductions from USD's 72-2241 to 72-2243
Compensation, semimonthly authorized 75-4315
Compulsory attendance 72-3120 72-3121                                                                                                                                                                          Computerized information search service 72-271
Concurrent enrollment 72-3220
Condemnation procedures (See also Eminent domain) 26-501 et seq.
Consent by minor 16 or over to medical treatment 38-123b
Consolidated districts; temporary board of education; powers 72-716
Consolidation, unified school districts 72-708 et seq.

Construction of buildings

Contracts Administrators, due process 72-2281 et seq.

Courses of study 72-3214, 72-3217
Credit Card Fees 75-30,100
Credit hour, defined, Washburn University 13-13a40
Crimes, reporting of 72-6141 et seq.
Criminal acts, reporting required 72-6142

  • (School Safety and Security Act)

Criminal history records check 72-8202f

  • for employees

D

Dangerous student, notice of 72-6141 et seq.

  • (School Safety and Security Act)

Deaf-blind, severely handicapped 72-3481
Deductions for fringe benefits 72-1891 72-2241 72-2242
Dental inspections, students 72-6251 to 72-6253
Dependents of public safety officers, tuition and fee waiver 75-4364
Deposit of public moneys 9-1401 et seq., 10-13112-1675 et seq.

  • Designation of depositories 9-1401
  • Exemption for insured portion 9-1407
  • Exemption from liability when money protected 9-1406                                        
  • Peak deposits 9-1403
  • Security for 9-1402

Deposit, certificates of 9-70112-1675
Destruction of school records 72-1629 to 72-1633
Determination of exceptionality (exceptional children) 72-3418
Destruction

Developmental disabilities, Advisory council on 74-5501
Disabled persons (See Physically disabled persons)
Disaster relief programs 72-9937
Disasters, effect on enrollment 72-6447
Disasters (See Emergency preparedness)
Discrimination

Diseases

  • Immunizations 72-6261 to 72-6265
  • Dismissal of instructor, tenure of instructors 72-2252 et seq.

  • (See also Continuing contract law and Teacher Due Process) 72-2215 et seq.
  • Disorganization of school districts 72-634 et seq.

  • Johnson County 72-9939
  • Disposal of property, unified school districts 72-3216
    Disposal of records 72-1629 to 72-1633
    Disposition of records of county superintendent 72-7801, 72-7802
    Display of flag 73-706 et seq.
    District in two or more counties, transfer of funds 72-1170
    Districts, unified (See Unified school districts) Diversion of funds, prohibited 79-2934
    Diversion of interest, bonds 10-118a10-118b

    Public agencies, leases for 55-211a

  • School grounds 55-211
  • Driver training courses 8-267, 8-272

  • Motor vehicles (See also Motor vehicles) 72-4005 et seq.
  • Driver’s license suspension for school suspension or expulsion 72-6135 et seq.
    Drug and alcohol abuse, citizens committee 75-5381 et seq.

    Drug treatment, minors 65-2892a

  • Employee assistance 72-2571
  • Pupils 72-6272
  • Dual enrollment of students in high school and college 72-3220 et seq.
    Due process for exceptional children 72-3418
    Due process for expulsion of students 72-6114 et seq.
    Due process for teachers 72-2252 to 72-2262

  • To whom the act applies 72-2260
  • Written notice required 72-2253
  • Dues, K.A.S.B., paid from general fund 72-1145

E

Early retirement incentive programs School districts 72-2291
Education commission of the states 72-8261 to 72-8264
Education for adults (See Adult education)
Education, state department (See also State board of education) 72-408
Educational cooperation agreements (Interlocals) 12-2901 et seq., 72-13,100
Educational cooperation agreements (Sponsoring district, special education) 72-341272-969
Educational services in regular school setting; school districts not required to provide certain persons; alternative placement to be offered 72-4348
Elections, generally 25-2001 et seq.

  • Absentee voting 25-1214 et seq.
    • Persons in federal service 25-1214 et seq.
  • Age of voter 25-2306
  • Arrangements of names on ballots Boards of Education 25-2014
  • Boards, election 25-2801 et seq.
  • Bond elections
  • Boundary lines (See Precincts)
  • Campaign finance law (for USD’s) 25-901 et seq.
  • Certification of offices to be filled, Board of education 25-2017a, 25-2018
  • Certificates of election 25-3110
  • Challenges 25-21625-410,  25-1337
  • Change in method of election, Board of education 72-1081 et seq.
  • Clerk, Board of education, duties 25-2017a
  • Consolidation of school districts 72-708 et seq.
  • Contest of 25-1434 et seq.
  • Dates of elections (See also Elections, definitions)
    • Correlation with other local elections 25-2011
    • General, school districts 25-2502
    • Primary, school districts 25-2502, Deceased persons' names given to county
    • election officer 65-2422
  • Disorganization of unified school district 72-63572-63772-638
  • Employees, leave allowance to vote 25-418
  • Filing deadline, Board of education 25-2007
  • Filing as a candidate, Board of Education member 25-200725-2020
  • General elections, state, time, officers to be elected, vacancies 25-101
  • Incompatible offices, election to 25-123
  • Leave allowance for employees to vote 25-418
  • Nonpartisan, unified school districts 25-2009
  • Notices
    • Board of education member 25-2017
    • Bond election 72-5457
    • Change in method of election, Boards of education 72-1081 et seq.
  • Oath of office 54-101 et seq.
    • Board of education members 25-2024
  • State board of education candidates 25-1903
  • State board of education election act (See also State board of education) 25-1901 et seq.
  • State officers 25-101a25-4001 et seq.
  • Terms of office, commencement of, Board of education 25-2023
  • Vacancies Boards of education 25-202225-2022a, 25-2022b
  • Voting, leave for 25-418
  • Voting machines 25-1307 et seq.
  • Voting places, designation and requirements 25-2701 to 25-270325-2710
  • Voting plans Unified school districts 72-1081 to 72-1088

Elementary school guidance programs 72-13,10372-13,104
Elementary schools, required courses 72-3214
Eminent domain (Condemnation of land)

Employee assistance programs 72-2571
Employee benefits contribution fund 12-16,102
Employee evaluations 72-2407 et seq.
Employee health certification 72-6266
Employee relations board, president 75-4322 (h)
Employees, criminal history checks 72-1132
Employees, leave allowance to vote 25-418
Employees, payment of salaries 44,314, 74-4940
Employees, retention bonus 12,105b, 72-2244
Employees, right to organize and negotiate (See Professional negotiation act)
Employees, social security 40-2305 (a)
Employees, state schools for blind for deaf 76-11a03 to 76-11a15
Employment discrimination 44-1013
Employment following retirement See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.
Employment incentives 12,105b, 72-2244
Energy, leases 75-37,125
Enrollment, annual certification of 72-6419
Entrance to public schools, age of 72-3118
Equalization act (See School district finance)
Equipment of vehicles 8-1729 et seq.
Ethics, conflict of interest 75-4306
Evaluations, teachers, other employees 72-2407 et seq.
Exceeding bond debt limit 72-5462
Exceeding budget limitations  79-2935
Exceptional children, special instruction (See also Special Education) 72-3403 et seq.

  • Advisory council for special education 72-3408
  • Cooperative agreements 72-3412, 72-13,100
  • Determination of exceptionality 72-972
  • Definitions 72-962
  • Due process hearing 72-972 to 72-974
  • Enrollment, mandatory 72-977
  • Hearings 72-972
  • Mandatory services 72-933
  • Parent or guardian's duties 72-3421
  • Reimbursement 72-3422
  • School records
    • Transfer of; when change of placement 38-1513b
    • Transfer of; when child changes schools 72-3439
  • Special education fund 72-6420
  • Special teachers (including paraprofessionals) 72-3404
  • State advisory council for special education 72-964
  • State Board to adopt State Plan 72-3405
  • State Board, administration of special education act 72-3405
  • State reimbursement 72-3422
  • Transportation 72-3411

Excess indebtedness unlawful, Taxing bodies 79-2935  Excess levy, duty of county clerk 79-1965
Excessive vacancies, school board 25-2022b
Exclusive representative (See Professional negotiation act)   
Executive sessions (open meetings law) 75-4317 to 72-1151 
Expenditures over $10,000, sealed bids required 75-4320
Expulsion and suspension of students 72-6114 et seq.
Extraordinary programs authorized 72-3239
Eye protective devices, required 72-6281
Eye testing program 72-6241 to 72-5206

F

Facilities, school (See School buildings)
Facsimile, signatures, coupons, bonds 10-105, 10-803, 75-4001 to 75-4007
Federal funds

  • Accounting procedures, vocational education 72-4424 (b)
  • Application by school board 72-5537

Federal taxes, withholding from earnings of state and municipal employees 75-3038

  • Duties of governing bodies 75-3042

Fees 72-3352 et seq.

Filing audit reports 75-1124
Financial statement to state auditor, bonds 10-110
Fire arms, possession of in or on school property 21-6301
Fire drills 31-133
Fire exits 31-133 (3)
Fire inspection, annual 31-144
Fire insurance 72-8402
Fire marshal, state, orders and recommendations Procedure for closing school 31-144
Fire safety and prevention 31-144, 31-150, 31-150a
First grade, age of entrance 72-3118
Fiscal agent, bonds 10-501 et seq.
Fiscal procedure, uniform 75-1120
Fiscal year, school districts 72-1161
Flag and patriotic emblems

Food

  • Sanitary rules and regulations 65-626

Food service programs, generally 72-17,132 et seq.

Fort Leavenworth military reservation school district

Fraternities, secret, prohibited in high schools 72-9931
Free textbooks 72-3344, 72-3345
Fringe benefit deductions 72-1891, 72-1892, 72-2241 to 72-2243
Fund defined, budget law 79-2925
Funds

G

Gas leases by school districts 55-211, 55-211a
General fund 72-6409
General obligation bonds (See also Bonds) 72-5457
General Pulaski's memorial day 35-203
Gift or bequest (unified school districts) 72-1142, 72-3216
Gifted children (See Special education)
Gifts to libraries, acceptance 12-1252, 12-1253
"Goggle Law" (eye protective devices) 72-6281
Good Samaritan Act 65-2891
Goodland, Kansas area-vocational school 76-6a13
Goodnow home, historical landmark 76-2034, 76-2035
Government records preservation act 45-401 et seq.
Governmental ethics (See Ethics)
Grades K through 12, every unified district 72-3216
Graduates, high school, admission to state universities 76-716, 76-717
Grants, tuition (for private institutions) 72-6107 to 72-6112
Grants-in-aid, approval or rejection 39-1008
Grants-in-aid, rehabilitation of handicapped adults 39-1205
Group insurance (See also Insurance) 72-1891, 72-1892
Group life insurance (See also Insurance) 40-433
Guidance programs, elementary school 72-13,103, 72-13,104
Guide dogs, use of 39-1102, 39-1103
Gun-free schools act 72-6131 et seq.
Guns on school property, prohibited 21-4204

H

Handicapped children, coordinating council for 74-6301

  • (See also Special education)
  • Day care programs 39-1001 et seq.

Handicapped persons (See also Physically disabled persons) 39-1101 to 39-1106

Health

Health and accident insurance 72-1891 to 72-18,101
Hearing testing for students 72-6228 to 72-6231
Hearings, budget 79-2927, 79-2929, 79-2933
Hearings, exceptional children 72-972 to 72-3419

Higher education student loan guarantee act 74-32,246 to 74-32,250
High school activities association 72-7114 to 72-7118
Historical landmark, Goodnow home 76-2034, 76-2035
Historical museums, community 12-1681 et seq.
Holidays

Homeless children, attendance in school 72-3122
Human rights (see also Discrimination) 44-1001 et seq.
Human rights commission 44-1001 et seq.

I

Identity, proof of 72-9934
Idle funds, investment of 9-701 (i)(2), 10-131, 12-110b, 12-1675, 12-1677, 12-1678, 17-5002
Immunization of school children 72-6261 to 72-6265
Incarcerated kids, no duty to educate unless disabled 72-9936
Inclement weather 72-3115, 72-1106c
Incompatible offices, election to 25-123
Increase taxes by election (local option budget) 72-6433
Indebtedness, excess, unlawful, (budget law) 79-2935
Indebtedness in excess of funds, unlawful (cash -basis law) 10-1113
Indebtedness, municipalities 10-1114 to 10-1119

Indemnifying bonds 10-704
Indian, American, day 35-205
Information search service, computerized 72-271
Inservice education 72-2544 et seq.
Inspection of schools, health 65-202
Instruction permits, driving 8-239
Instruction, units of, 30 required (U.S.D.’s) 72-3216
Insufficient budget, effect on continuing contracts 72-2216
Insurance, generally 72-1878 et seq.

Interest

Interlibrary cooperation 75-2575 et seq.
Interlocal cooperation 12-2901 et seq., 72-13,100

Investment of idle funds 9-701 (i), 10-131, 12-110b, 12-1675, 12-1677

  • Savings and loan associations 17-5002

Investment of proceeds, bonds 10-131
Investment, certain

  • Exception to budget law 12-1672
  • Exception to cash-basis law 12-1671
  • Inapplicability to certain moneys 12-1676
  • Political or taxing subdivisions 12-1678a

Isolation, quarantine 65-119
Itemized statement from county treasurer 19-508b

J

Jailed students 72-9936
Job corps center students 72-1173
Job training partnership act (See also Vocational Education) 74-32,412
Johnson County, final unification 72-1091 et seq.

  • Board of education
  • Disorganization of districts

Judgment, tax levy to pay 72-1141
Judgments, periodic payments 75-6112
Judgments, refunding bonds for 10-427
Juvenile detention facilities, money for pupils in 72-1173

Juvenile justice 72-1173
Juvenile justice, definitions 38-1602
Juveniles in correctional facilities, notice to school district upon release 38-1673
Juveniles in jail, no duty to educate unless disabled 72-9936

K

Kansas act against discrimination 44-1001 et seq.
Kansas association of school boards, dues paid from general fund 72-1145
Kansas challenge to secondary school pupils 72-3220 et seq.
Kansas education building fund 76-6b02
Kansas flag 73-701 et seq.
Kansas history, required for graduation 72-3235
“Kansas March” 73-801
Kansas open meetings law 75-4317 et seq.
Kansas open records act 45-215 et seq.
Kansas proprietary school act (See also Proprietary schools) 72-4916 et seq.
K.P.E.R.S. , see Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S
Kansas state high school activities association 72-7114 to 72-7118
Kansas state library and library services

Kansas state school for the blind 76-1101 et seq.

Kansas state school for the deaf 76-1001 et seq.

Kindergarten 72-3118, 72-3216

L

Labor, child 38-601 to 38-612
Labor and material bond (Public works) 60-1111
Land, transfers of 72-532
Language, English, use in instruction 72-3214
Law enforcement powers, school security officers 72-6146
Learning Quest savings program 75-640 et seq.

Leases, oil and gas, school grounds 55-211
Leasing of property 72-1149
Leavenworth (See Fort Leavenworth)
Leave allowance to vote 25-418
Leave of absence, KPERS See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.
Legal counsel, boards of education 72-1138
Legal designation of unified school districts 72-1131, 72-1132
Legal holidays 35-107, 38-108

Legal notices

Levies (See Tax levies)
Levy

  • Increase, State Board of Tax Appeals 79-1964a
  • Judgments 72-1141
  • Library, first class city, unified district 72-1420
  • Tax, two mill, vocational education 72-4424a

Liability insurance, motor vehicles, school districts 72-1881
Libraries (See also Kansas state library)

License restrictions, bus drivers 8-237 to 8-238
Licenses

  • Certificates of approval, proprietary schools 72-4924 et seq.
  • Chauffeurs' 8-238
  • Driver training instructor 8-277
  • Driver training schools, commercial 8-273 et seq.
  • Drivers' 8-234a et seq.

Life insurance, group 72-1891, 72-1892
Liquor in public places, forbidden 41-719
Loans

Lobbyists and lobbying 72-9935
Local ad valorem tax reduction fund 79-2959 et seq.
Local option budget 72-6433

Lunch program 72-17,132 et seq.

M

Maps of school districts by county clerk or assessor 79-1429
Mathematics and science teacher service scholarship program 74-32,186 et seq.
Medical insurance 72-1881
Meetings (Open meetings law) 75-4317 et seq.

Meetings, board of education, regular and special 72-1138
Member district method, board of education 72-1089
Memorial parks and fields 13-1356

  • Lease to board of education 13-1357

Mentally retarded (See Exceptional children and Special education)
Mentor teacher grant program 72-2561 et seq.
Microfilming records 72-1631 to 72-1633
Mileage and transportation of students 72-6486 et seq.
Military memorial parks and fields 13-1356

  • Lease to board of education 13-1357

Military recruiters, access to students 72-9932
Military reservations, schools on 72-1209 to 72-1213

Military service, temporary absence of public officials, employees, relief 73-213 to 73-219
Minimum competency assessment reporting 72-3219
Minimum competency testing 72-9401 et seq.
Minimum wage-maximum hours law 44-1201 et seq.
"Minor," defined 38-101
Modification of bond debt limitation 72-5458 et seq.
Money, deposit of public 9-701, 9-1401 et seq.
Money, unexpended, 79-2958
Motor vehicle liability insurance, school district 72-1881
Motor vehicles

  • Definitions 8-1750
  • Driver training schools, commercial 8-273 et seq.
  • Lighting equipment on school buses 8-1730
  • Liability insurance, school districts 72-1881
  • Publicly-owned
  • Registration
  • Rules of the road 8-1507 et seq.
  • School bus (See also School buses)
  •  

Multi-county districts, transfer of funds 72-1170
Municipal accounting board

Municipal university, Washburn 13-13a40 to 13-13a46

Municipalities

Musical instruments 72-3352 et seq.

N

National Board Certification Program 72-2166
Neglected or dependent child

Newspaper, student 72-7209 et seq.
Nine-month school employees, calculation of pay 75-5509
No-fund warrants (See also Warrants) 10-807, 79-2005

Noncertificated personnel 72-3404, 72-3115
Nonpublic schools

Nonrenewal, administrators 72-2215 to 72-2216, 72-2281 to 72-2285
Nonrenewal, teachers 72-2215 to 72-2216, 72-2252 to 72-2262
Nonresident pupils; attendance in school; provision of transportation authorized 72-3124
Nonresident students

Notes, temporary (See Temporary notes)
Notice of dangerous student (School Safety and Security Act) 72-6141 et seq.
Notice of nonrenewal by board or teacher or administrator, 72-2251, 72-2282
Notices (See also Elections)

Nurses

  • Certification 72-255
  • Nutrition and health education guidelines adopted by state board 72-17,148

O

Oath of member, board of education 25-2023
Oath of office, public officers and employees 75-4308 to 75-4314
Oaths and affirmations 54-101 et seq.
Observance of holidays, programs for patriotic exercises 72-9928
Officers and employees filing for public office 25-2110
Official bonds, surety 78-111
Oil and gas, drilling, school grounds 55-211
On-line bidding to buy property 72-1151
Open meetings law 75-4317 et seq.
Open records act 45-215 et seq.
Operating expenses (See School District Equalization Act)
Ouster when audit discloses grounds 75-1126
Out-of-state attendance 72-3125
Out-of-state tuition, vocational education 72-3815
 

P

Paraprofessionals (special education) 72-3404
Parent education programs 72-4161 et seq.
Parent-teacher conferences, as part of 72-3115
school term Parking fees on school grounds 72-6526, 72-6529
Parochial schools Accreditation 72-255

Patriotic exercises, observing certain legal holidays 72-9928
Patriotism (curriculum) 72-3217
Payment, bonds 10-103,10-603
Payment, no-fund warrants 10-807
Payment of claims, procedure for 12-105a, 12-105b
Payment of salaries, when unlawful 10-1113, 72-2159
Payment of bonds, disorganized district 72-635 (c), 72-638, 72-714
Payments to school districts, county treasurer 12-1678a

Payments required to be paid in June; insufficient revenues to pay 72-1169
Payroll deductions, generally 72-2241 et seq.

"Periods of silence," permitted at opening of every school day 72-9929
Personal financial literacy programs; development and implementation 72-3236
Personal property, Lease of 72-1149

Personnel, certificate of health 72-6266

Petitions

Petty cash fund 72-1177
Physical examinations of school personnel 72-6266
Physical examinations of students 72-6267
Physically disabled persons

Physician

Playgrounds (See Public recreation)
Pledge of allegiance to flag 72-9928
Political or taxing subdivisions, investments 12-1675, 12-1678ae
Polls, time of opening and closing 25-2111
Postsecondary savings program 75-640 et seq.
Prayer, silent permitted 72-9929
Precinct (See also Elections)

Prepayment of salaries or wages, limitations 75-5520
Preschool programs authorized 72-3215
Presentation of claims against municipality 12-105b
Presentment of claims not incurred, public officials 75-3202
President of board of education 72-1133

Primary elections (See Elections)

Principal

Privacy, right to, generally 72-6311

  • Access to students by career counselors 72-9932

Private school pupils

Private schools (accredited)

Probationary period, tenure (Due process) 72-2260
Professional negotiation act 72-5413 to 72-5425

  • Administrative employees exempt 72-2218, 72-2239
  • Agreements become part of teachers' contracts 72-2228
  • Agreements between boards and representatives 72-2226to 72-2229
  • Arbitration authorized 72-2229
  • Board's duties unchanged except for negotiation 72-2228
  • Costs 72-2234
  • Decision of state department of human resources on appropriate local unit 72-2225
  • Definitions 72-2218
  • Employees' right to organize and negotiate 72-2219
  • Exceptions of board to recognition request 72-2221
  • Exclusive representative designated 72-2220
  • Fact-finding board,
  • Federal mediation and conciliation service 72-2232
  • Final action by board 72-2232, 72-2238
  • Impasse 72-2231
  • Investigations by state department of human resources 72-2222 to 72-2225
  • Mediation 72-2232
  • Petition for investigation to state department of human resources 72-2222
  • Prohibited practices 72-2236
  • Recognition of employees’ organizations 72-2221
  • Request for recognition to the board 72-2221
  • Secret ballot election by state department of human resources 72-2224
  • Strikes prohibited 72-2228
  • Unilateral contracts 72-2238
    • Final order, judicial review 72-2236
  • Unit, local, defined 72-2225
  • Written notices to negotiate 72-2228

Professional practices act (See also Professional practices commission) 72-2308 eq.
Professional standards advisory board

Professional practices commission Appointment of members 72-2311

Profile of school district; contents; notice of availability 72-1164
Programs

  • Alcohol and drug abuse programs for pupils 72-6272
  • Employee assistance programs 72-2571

Prompt payment of claims act 75-6401 et seq.
Proof of identity 72-9934
 

Property

Property valuation, extension of deadline 79-1404 (17)
Property tax exemption 79-210
Proprietary schools

Public health

  • Communicable diseases 65-118, 65-119
    • Isolation and quarantine 65-128
    • Schools, nonadmissions and exclusions 65-122
  • County health funds 65-204
  • County health officers 65-202
  • Garbage and trash disposal 65-204
  • Secretary of health and environment, health supervision 65-101

Public information (Open records act) 45-215 et seq.
Public library (See also Libraries) 12-1215 et seq., 72-1418
Public meetings, open 75-4317 to 75-4322
Public moneys, definitions 9-701

Public officers and employees,

Public officials

  • Open meetings law 75-4317 et seq.
  • Recall of local 25-4301 et seq.
  • Uniform facsimile of signatures act 75-4001 et seq.

Public records

Public recreation and playgrounds 12-1922 et seq.

Public use of schoolhouse 72-3216
Public television commission abolished 75-4926
Public works bond 60-1111
Publication of salary of superintendent, cities of first class  72-1419 Publicly-owned motor vehicles (See Motor vehicles)
Pupils

Purchase of benefits and credits, KPERS See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.
Purchase of products from blind 75-3317 to 75-3322
Purchase orders, cancelable 10-1113
Purchases

Q

Qualified admission to state universities 76-717b76-717
Quarantine 65-119
Quarterly statement, county treasurer 19-520

R

Recall of locally elected officials 25-4301 to 25-430425-4318
Recitals, bonds 10-112
Recognition request, exceptions of board, negotiation act 72-2221
Records

Records of clerk and treasurer, cash-basis law 10-1117 to 10-1118
Recreation systems, generally 12-1922 et seq.

Regents, state board of (See also State Board of Regents)

Regional libraries 12-1231 et seq.
Regional system of cooperating libraries (See also Libraries) 75-2547 et seq.
Registration of no-fund warrants 10-80779-2940
Registration of representatives, proprietary schools 74-32,142
Registration of school buses, not required 8-128

Religious beliefs

  • Basis for objection to immunization 72-6262 
  • Children not required to participate in activities contrary to 72-3120
  • Compulsory school attendance, right of persons to attend private, denominational or parochial school 72-3120

Religious doctrines, forbidden to be taught 72-9930
Rental textbook plans 72-3346
Report of pupil performance 72-3219
Reporting abuse or neglect of child 38-2223
Reporting communicable diseases 65-118
Reporting criminal acts required 72-6143

  • (School Safety and Security Act)

Required subjects 72-321472-321772-3235
Residence

  • Board of education
    • Member to reside in member district 72-1089
    • Voting plans, change of method of election 72-1083
    • Out-of-state and foreign 72-3815
  • Defined 77-201
  • School (K-12) 72-3122
  • Vocational education, six months' waiting period 72-3811

Retention bonuses 72-2244

Right of privacy act 72-6311

S

Sabbatical leaves

  • Professional negotiations 72-2218 et seq.

Safety, eye protective devices 72-6281
Safety fund, driver training course 8-272
Salaries,

Sale of school property 72-3216
Sales, use, and guest tax returns to city upon request 12-1780d

Savings annuities

Savings program, postsecondary 75-640 et seq.
Scholarships  74-32,233 to 74-32,238

School activity funds 72-1178
School administration professional standards advisory board 72-2309
School annuity, retirement system 72-2624 (g), 72-2628
School attendance, compulsory 72-3120, 72-3121
School attendance review board 72-3131 - 72-3135
School board (See Board of education)
School bonds (See also Bonds) 72-5457

School books (See Textbooks)
School budget (See Budget)
School buildings

School buses 72-64,102, 72-3216

School census (optional) 72-3119

School day defined 72-3115
School district finance, generally 72-5133 et seq.     

School districts (See also Board of education)

School elections (See Bond elections)
School employee, defined, retirement system 72-2624 (d)

School enrollment, annual certification of 72-6419
School equalization act (See School district finance)
School employee evaluations 72-2407 et seq.
School employee health certification 72-6266
School for the blind (See Kansas State School for the Blind)
School for the deaf (See Kansas State School for the Deaf)
School grounds, traffic and parking 72-6526 et seq.

School guidance programs, elementary 72-13,103, 72-13,104
School lands 72-1507 et seq.

School libraries, unified school districts 72-1418
School lunch program (See Food service program)
School month, defined 72-3115
School nurse

School officers and employees (See also Board of education) 72-1133 to 72-1137

School personnel, appointment of 72-1137
School property

School records, destruction of 72-1629 to 72-1633

School residence (K-12) 72-3122
School safety and security act 72-6141 et seq.
School security officer 72-6146
School records (See Records)
School service, defined, retirement system 72-2624
School sites and improvements, elections on 72-5457
School supplies and equipment, cancelable purchase orders 10-1113
School taxes

  • Annexation of territory,
  • Judgments against school district, levy to pay 72-1141
  • Library and library service 72-1420
  • Transfer of territory
  • Unified school districts, general fund 72-1162

School term, defined 72-3115
School year, defined 72-6408
Schoolhouse, public use of 72-3216
Schools, provisions for closing facilities 72-8213
Schools (See Board of education, School districts, and Unified school districts)

  • Admission to state universities and colleges 76-717b
  • Adult education 74-32,253 et seq.
  • Alcoholic liquor in public places forbidden 41-719
  • Alternative schools 72-4241
  • Bids, sealed, when required 72-1151
  • Cash-basis law, exceptions to 10-1113
  • Census 72-3119, 72-1212
  • Communicable diseases, nonadmissions and exclusions, readmissions 65-122
  • Compulsory attendance 72-3120, 72-3121
  • Consolidation of districts 72-708 et seq.
  • Continuing contract law 72-2215 to 72-2216
  • Contracts, written, required, when 72-1151
  • County clerk, duties (See County clerk)
  • Deductions from compensation 72-2241 to 72-2243
  • Disorganization of districts 72-634 to 72-640
  • Exceptional children programs (See also Special education) 72-3403 et seq.
  • Group insurance (See also Insurance) 72-1891
  • Hearing testing 72-6228 to 72-6231
  • Holiday observances (see also Legal public holidays) 72-9928
  • Kansas State High School Activities Association 72-7114 to 72-7118
  • Leasing of property 72-1149
  • Nurses, unlawful acts, exceptions 65-1114, 65-1124
  • Paraprofessionals 72-3404
  • Parent-teacher conferences, part of school day 72-3115
  • Patriotic exercises 72-9928
  • Petty cash fund 72-1177
  • Physically disabled, employment of 39-1105
  • Pledge of allegiance required 72-9928
  • Purchase of books, buses, equipment as exceptions to cash-basis law 10-1113
  • Records, destruction authorized, when 72-1629
  • Retirement system and K.P.E.R (See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.)
  • Sale of property 72-3216
  • School day, year, defined 72-3115
  • Security officers, school districts 72-6146
  • Sites, authority of school board to select 72-5457
  • Student teaching 72-2160
  • Summer programs; authority to establish, operate and maintain 72-3238
  • Surety bonds for officials 78-111
  • Teacher aides 72-3115
  • Teachers’ certificates 72-2154 to 72-2159
  • Tenure of instructors, due process 72-2252 to 72-2260
  • Textbooks 72-3344
  • Transfer of territory 72-532

Sealed bids, required when (See also Bids) 72-1151
Secret ballot by board prohibited 75-4317
Secret ballot election, professional negotiation act 72-2224
Secret fraternities prohibited in high schools 72-9931
Sectarian doctrine prohibited 72-9930
Securities, deposit of 9-1405

  • Exemption from liability 9-1406

Security for deposit of public moneys (See also Investment of idle funds) 9-1402

Security officers, schools 72-6146
Selling buildings, unified school districts 72-3216
Semimonthly compensation authorized 75-4315
Shortages in revenue, when, no-fund warrants 79-2938
Signatures, uniform facsimile of 75-4001

Sites, bonds for, board of education 72-5457

Smoking in school building prohibited 21-6109, 72-6285
Special assessments, bonds 10-103
Special assessments, city improvements 10-114, 10-115
Special assessments, installment basis, interest 12-6a10
Special bond projects in cities; approval by secretary of commerce; restrictions 12-1780b
Special bond project; project plan, contents; resolution adopting plan; public hearing; construction time schedule 12-1780c
Special education for exceptional children act (See also Exceptional children) 72-3403 et seq.

Special liability expense funds; uses of money 72-1179
Special meetings, unified school district 72-1138
Special reserve fund; uses of money 72-1180
Special teachers, exceptional children 72-3404
Standards board (See Professional standards advisory board)
State aid (See also School district finance)

State aid payments, delayed 72-1169
State banner 73-703, 73-704
State board of education Kansas Constitution, Article 6, 72-243 et seq.

  • Abolition of office of state superintendent  72-247 Accreditation of schools 72-255
  • Administration of education laws 72-255
  • Approval of territory transfer 72-532
  • Approval to exceed bond limitation 72-5458 et seq.
  • Approve change in voting plan, board of education elections 72-1086
  • Approve contracts and curriculum for special education 72-3411
  • Approve $20,000 in bonds without an election 72-5457
  • Attorney 72-254
  • Bilingual programs, approval 72-3214
  • Board member defined 72-244
  • Board member districts 72-244
  • Board member position defined 72-244
  • Boundaries, school districts, certification of 72-533
  • Candidates for 25-1903
  • Commissioner of education 72-371 et seq.
  • Composition 72-245
  • Consolidation agreements, approval of 72-710
  • Order establishing district 72-712
  • Defined 72-244
  • Disorganization of school districts 72-634 et seq.
  • Election of 72-245
  • Vacancies 72-245, 72-246
  • Election of officers 72-250
  • Federal fund applications 72-5539
  • Filling vacancies 25-3903, 72-246
  • Hearing officers 72-262, 72-263
  • Kansas state school for the deaf (See Kansas state school for the deaf)
  • Kansas state school for the Blind (See Kansas state school for the Blind)
  • Meetings 72-248, 72-249
  • Member districts 72-245
  • Member position 72-245
  • Members, defined 72-244
  • Minutes of meetings 72-250
  • Officers, election 72-250
  • Official actions, record vote 72-251
  • Official certifications 72-252
  • Official school district boundaries, certification of 72-533
  • Old board abolished, continuity of contracts 72-124a
  • Position numbers 72-245
  • Powers and duties 72-245, 72-255
  • Residence qualifications 72-245
  • Retirement system See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.
  • State department of education 72-408 et seq.
  • Suspension of teaching certificates 72-2155, 72-2216
  • Transfer of territory 72-532
  • Vacancies 25-3903
    • Filled by appointment, when 72-246
  • Vocational education, powers and duties 72-32,405 et seq.

State board of regents Degree conferring institutions 72-3249 et seq.

State board of tax appeals (See also No-fund warrants)

State department of education 72-371 et seq.
State fire marshal

  • Closing or repair of buildings 31-144

State high school activities association, Kansas 72-7114 to 72-7118
State librarian 75-2535
State reimbursement, exceptional children 72-3422
State driver safety fund 8-267, 8-272
State scholarship fund (See Scholarships)
State tax levies for buildings 76-6b02
State treasurer Custodian of federal funds 72-5539

State universities and colleges, admission to 76-717b
Strikes, unauthorized, professional negotiation act 72-2228
Student achievement, annual report on 72-3219
Student attendance, compulsory 72-3421, 72-3120, 72-3121
Student fees 72-3352, 72-3353

Student health assessments 72-6267
Student loans, higher education student loan guarantee act, generally 74-32,246 to 74-32,250
Student, out-of-district and out-of-state (USDs) 72-3125
Student publications 72-7209 et seq.
Student records, transfer of 72-6310
Student suspension or expulsion for

Student teaching certificates 72-2160
Student transportation, fees for 72-3123
Students’ dual enrollment in high school and college 72-3220 et seq.
Students , incarcerated (jailed) not allowed to attend school 72-9936
Students, transportation and mileage 72-6489
Subjects to be taught in all accredited schools 72-3214 to 72-3217
Summer schools; authority to establish, operate and maintain 72-3238
Summer school programs 72-3238
Superintendent, appointment and duties 72-1134
Superintendent, authorized to contract for up to $10,000 72-1131
Supplemental contracts 72-2217
Surety bonds

  • School officials' premiums paid by district 78-111
  • Treasurer 72-1136

Surplus bond proceeds, authorized use 72-7062
Surplus federal property, distribution to schools 27-311, 27-313, 27-314
Surrender of bonds 10-427
Survey and inventory of school facilities 72-127 to 72-129
Suspension and expulsion 72-6114 et seq.

Suspension of driving license or privileges 72-6135, 72-6136
Suspension of teaching certificate, contract breach 72-2216

T

Tax, distribution dates 12-1678a
Tax exempt bonds 79-1407
Tax exempt property 79-20179-210
Tax exemptions, authority to grant 79-251
Tax levies 79-2005b

Tax protests 79-2005
Tax rates, limits suspended 79-5040
Tax sheltered annuities 72-2243
Taxation (See also Tax levies, Assessments)

Taxation, change in boundary 72-52379-1807
Taxes

Taxing bodies, budgets of 79-2925 et seq.
Teacher aides 72-3115
Teacher, defined, continuing contract law 72-2215
Teacher training, colleges accredited for 72-215172-215272-2153
Teacherages, Unified school districts 72-1143
Teachers

Teachers' certificates 72-2154 to 72-2164

Teacher exchange program 72-9933
Teacherages 72-1143
Teachers' professional practices act 72-2308 et seq.
Teachers' retirement See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S
Teaching declared profession (Teachers' professional practices act) 72-2308
Teaching, student 72-2160
Technical colleges 74-32,468 et seq.
Technical college faculty members transferred from USD; protection of salary and benefits 74-32,466
Technical college governing body; powers and duties; plans to replace existing governing board 74-32,452
Temporary licenses, driving 8-239
Temporary notes 72-5457

  • Improvements 10-123
  • Investments 12-1675
  • Procedure for issuance, refund sale 12-1665
  • Renewal 10-123
  • School sites, improvements, buses (in lieu of bonds) 72-5457

Tenure of teachers, due process, generally 72-2252 to 72-2260

Termination of contract, written notice (continuing contract law) 72-2251

Termination of employment, KPERS’ rights See pamphlet issued by K.P.E.R.S.
Terms and denominations, bonds 10-103
Terms of office, board member (unified school district) 72-1072
Territory

Testing of hearing 72-6228 to 72-6231
Textbooks, generally 72-3344 et seq.

  • Free 72-3345
  • No-fund warrants to purchase 72-3347
  • Nonpublic schools 72-335672-3357
  • Purchase, exception to cash-basis law 10-1113
  • Purchase, no-fund warrants 72-3347
  • Rental plan 72-3346
  • Rentals not subject to sales tax 79-3606
  • Revolving fund 72-3344
  • Selection by local board 72-1138
  • Student materials revolving fund; uses of money 72-3355
  • Title in board, property 72-3350
  • Withholding student's records for failure to pay for or return of school property 72-6310

Thirty units of instruction required 72-3216
Time deposits, open accounts 9-70112-167512-1676
Title to property, board of education 72-3216
Tornado drill 31-133
Traffic and parking on school grounds 72-6526 et seq.
Transfer of territory 72-521 to 72-532

Transfer student, return of school property, records withheld, when 72-6310
Transportation (See also Motor vehicles and School buses) 72-6486 et seq.

Truancy 72-312072-3121

  • Designate certified employee to report 72-3121
  • Special education 72-3421
  • SRS agreements with county or district attorney; reporting 72-3121

Tuberculin tests required 72-6262
Tuition

  • Adult education 74-32, 253 et seq.
  • Attendance out-of-district or out-of- state (USDs) 72-3125
  • Contracts for, within or without state (USDs) 72-3125
  • Vocational education 72-3810 et seq.
  • Waiver for public safety officer dependents 75-4364

Tuition and fees, vocational education 72-3810 et seq.

 

U

Unexpended money to general fund 79-2958
Unification (See Consolidation, Disorganization of school districts and Transfer of territory)
Unified district

Unified school districts (See also Board of education and Schools)

 

V

Vacancies

Vice-president of board, unified school district 72-1133
Vision testing and safety 72-6241 to 72-6281
Visually handicapped, Kansas State School for 76-1101 seq.
Vocational education 74-32,405 et seq.

Vote, employee leave to 25-418

Voting places, requirements 25-2701 to 25-2703
Voting plans, school district 72-1083

W

Wages and salaries, when payable 74-4940
Warrants and checks; signatures on 10-803
Washburn University

Withholding student's records, when authorized 72-6310
Withholding tax 79-3296

Written notices to negotiate, professional negotiation act 72-2228
Written notice to terminate contract required 72-2251

Write-in candidates, school elections 25-2021

XYZ

Youth centers, special education 72-3404, 72-3413

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