BP 5126 — Awards for Achievement
Section: 5000 - Students
Status: Active
Adopted: 2018-03-27
Policy text
AWARDS FOR ACHIEVEMENT
The Governing Board encourages excellence as a goal for all students and wishes to publicly recognize students for exemplary achievement in academic, athletic, extracurricular, or community service activities.
District/School Awards
Student awards may include verbal recognition, a letter, a certificate, a Board resolution, public ceremony, trophy, gift, plaque.
The Superintendent or designee shall develop criteria for the selection of student award recipients.
Golden State Seal Merit Diploma
At graduation from high school, special recognition shall be awarded to those students whose academic achievements in core curriculum areas have been outstanding.
The Superintendent or designee shall identify high school students who have demonstrated mastery of the high school curriculum qualifying them for the Golden State Seal Merit Diploma.
Biliteracy Award
The district shall present the State Seal of Biliteracy to each graduating high school student who has attained a high level of proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing in one or more languages in addition to English.
In order to affirm the value of bilingualism and encourage students’ enrollment in world language programs, the Superintendent or designee may present awards at appropriate grade levels to recognize the pursuit and/or attainment of grade-level proficiency in one or more languages in addition to English.
Legal
DHHS
EDUCATION CODE - EDC
35160 Authority of governing boards
44015 Awards to employees and students
51243-51245 Credit for private school foreign language instruction
51450-51455 Golden State Seal Merit Diploma
51460-51464 State Seal of Biliteracy
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
52164.1 Assessment of English language skills of English learners
CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS
876 Golden State Seal Merit Diploma
CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS
TITLE 5 1632 Credit for private school foreign language instruction
Code of regulations, Title 5, 11510-11516 Assessment of English language development