(1)On or before April 1, 2012, or not more than ninety days
after the department receives sufficient moneys to implement this article as
described in section 22-93-102 (2), whichever is later, the state board shall
promulgate rules for the administration of this article, including but not limited to:
(a)Application procedures by which public schools, facility schools, and
collaborative groups of public schools and facility schools may apply for grants
pursuant to this article;
(b)Criteria for the department to apply in selecting the public schools,
facility schools, and collaborative groups of public schools and facility schools that
shall receive grants and determining the amount of grant moneys to be awarded to
each grant recipient, which criteria, at a minimum, shall requir
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(1) On or before April 1, 2012, or not more than ninety days
after the department receives sufficient moneys to implement this article as
described in section 22-93-102 (2), whichever is later, the state board shall
promulgate rules for the administration of this article, including but not limited to:
(a) Application procedures by which public schools, facility schools, and
collaborative groups of public schools and facility schools may apply for grants
pursuant to this article;
(b) Criteria for the department to apply in selecting the public schools,
facility schools, and collaborative groups of public schools and facility schools that
shall receive grants and determining the amount of grant moneys to be awarded to
each grant recipient, which criteria, at a minimum, shall require each grant recipient
to:
(I) Use awarded grant moneys for purposes that are based upon evidence-based best practices for preventing bullying;
(II) Use at least a portion of awarded grant moneys for the purpose of
educating students' parents and legal guardians regarding the grant recipient's
policies concerning bullying prevention and education and the grant recipient's
ongoing efforts to reduce the frequency of bullying incidents; and
(III) Adopt a specific policy concerning bullying education and prevention
that includes:
(A) Provisions for the biennial administration of surveys of students'
impressions of the severity of bullying in their schools, the administration of which
surveys, at a minimum, shall satisfy the rules promulgated by the state board
pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection (1); and
(B) The designation of a team of persons at each school of the school district
who advise the school administration concerning the severity and frequency of
bullying incidents that occur in the school, which team may include, but need not be
limited to, law enforcement officials, social workers, prosecutors, health
professionals, mental health professionals, counselors, teachers, administrators,
parents, and students.
(c) Rules for the administration of surveys of students' impressions of the
severity of bullying in their schools, which procedures, at a minimum, shall include:
(I) Procedures for the distribution, collection, standardization, and analysis of
data collected in each survey, which procedures shall ensure the confidentiality of
each student's answers to the survey and clarify that the completion of a survey
shall be voluntary and shall not be required of any student;
(II) Certain questions that each survey shall ask of each student concerning
how frequently the student witnesses bullying at his or her school and how
frequently the student perceives himself or herself to be a victim of bullying; and
(III) Provisions to ensure that, to the extent practicable, a school district or
school, including a district charter school or an institute charter school, may utilize
existing forms and procedures in administering the surveys.
(d) The designation of a date by which the department shall annually submit
to the state board and to the education committees of the senate and house of
representatives, or any successor committees, the information described in section
22-93-103 (4).