Policy Guides. At the core of the Policy Maintenance Program are the BCS policy guides, which include hundreds of templates setting forth recommended policy language developed to assure that the responsibilities of school entities can be fulfilled in a manner that reflects recommended practices and complies with legal standards and limitations. Assembled together, the policy guides form a comprehensive policy manual addressing all common aspects of school entity operations and responsibilities for which local policies are recommended. Built into many policy guides are optional provisions and alternatives among which school entities may choose as a means of tailoring policies to local needs and preferences. Further local customization by participants is encouraged and supported by BCS. Policy guides are updated and revised as deemed appropriate by BCS to reflect changes in legal mandates and other parameters due to new legislation, regulations, court decisions or non- regulatory guidance pronouncements of state and federal agencies. Policy guides contain footnotes indicating the sources of law necessitating various provisions, with hyperlinks to those sources of law when available online. Subscribers to the Policy Maintenance Program receive all new and newly-updated policy guides that are published by BCS in the course of a program year and upon request will be provided with up to ten (10) additional policy guides per program year. An entity that has separately engaged BCS for a comprehensive policy manual, will be provided all necessary policy guides in accordance with the contracted service. The comprehensive policy manual service is a separate fee-based service that is not included in the Policy Maintenance Program or Administrative Regulations Program.
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