---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 42.10"
title: "25"
number: "42.10"
heading: "How must the school communicate individual student rights to students, parents or guardians, and staff?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/42.10"
---

# §42.10. How must the school communicate individual student rights to students, parents or guardians, and staff?


Each school must:

- (a) Develop a student handbook that includes local school policies, definitions of suspension, expulsion, zero tolerance, and other appropriate terms, and a copy of the regulations in this part;
- (b) Provide all school staff a current and updated copy of student rights and responsibilities before the first day of each school year;
- (c) Provide all students and their parents or guardians a current and updated copy of student rights and responsibilities every school year upon enrollment; and
- (d) Require students, school staff, and to the extent possible, parents and guardians, to confirm in writing that they have received a copy and understand the student rights and responsibilities.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, Pub. L. 107-110, 115 Stat. 1425.

### Source

Source: 70 FR 22218, Apr. 28, 2005, unless otherwise noted.