Academic Honor:  Students are expected to exhibit honor in completing their own work. PACE Career Academy considers honesty to be essential for each student’s intellectual development. Therefore, student work must follow fundamental expectations and proper academic guidelines with regard to doing one’s own work and/or giving credit to others when using their work in whole, part, or through paraphrasing. Students who have questions or uncertainty about their course work and academic honesty are highly encouraged to discuss the matter with their teacher or other school official. A violation of academic honesty is any action or attempted action that may result in creating an unfair academic advantage.

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Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as your own. All words, ideas, opinions, graphics, or other material that is not original to the student must be properly cited using in-text citations. This applies to using other’s work in whole, part, or through paraphrasing. Quotation marks must be used for direct quotations even for just a few words. When in doubt about the proper use of citations please talk with a teacher. The proper process for citing work is taught and reviewed throughout a student’s career and it is the student’s responsibility to adhere to these common academic guidelines.

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Cheating is similar to plagiarism in that cheating involves taking credit for knowledge the student has not attained or credit for work that someone else has done. This might include tests, projects, and other assignments. The most common form of cheating is copying or attempting to copy from others (with or without their knowledge). In our electronic age, this obviously includes information or work received electronically. Students who make their work available to others for copying or plagiarism are also guilty of cheating. Students are expected to do their own work and keep their work to themselves unless the assignment includes specific directions to share work, such as group work situations. If in doubt, students should ask a teacher.

 

PROCEDURE FOR CONCERNS/ APPEALS

Students or parent may occasionally have concerns regarding their experience at PACE Career Academy including the actions or decisions of staff members. Students or parents with such concerns should first discuss the situation with the staff member involved. If an acceptable resolution of the concern is not met, then the student or parent should discuss the situation with the School Director. A final appeal, after the Director, would be made to the PACE Career Academy Board.

 

FIELD TRIPS

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PACE Career Academy students will be required to participate in activities outside of the classroom which supplement and enrich the regular curriculum, develop students’ social skills, and encourage participation in community development. In order to participate in field trips, students must complete and return the PACE field trip permission form to the teacher.

PACE Career Academy students must obey all school rules and are expected to conduct themselves in such a way as to bring credit to their school, their community and themselves.

 

ABSENCES

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PACE attendance expectations mirror those expected in the workplace. When a student must be absent for medical or other unavoidable family circumstances, it is the responsibility of the student (if 18) and/or parent/guardian to notify the school via phone or email prior to the start of the school day. 

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For a planned event or anticipated absences that require that the student will miss school, parents/guardians are asked to send a note to PACE as far in advance as possible. It is the student’s responsibility to request assignments and monitor their status.

If an absence occurs during an internship or off-site placement, the student will be responsible for notifying the supervisor. Please remember that inconsistent attendance at work can be cause for dismissal from the internship or job.

 

ATTENDANCE

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Because encountering new ideas; showing respect for other’s views; meeting oral, written and performance standards; and learning personal responsibility are all core objectives of PACE Career Academy’s curriculum, it is the belief of the PACE Career Academy that attendance is essential to each individual student’s educational and work related success.

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Therefore, students have the responsibility to be in school participating fully in their classes on a daily basis. Students and parents must understand that any pattern of repeated absences will seriously jeopardize a student’s ability to successfully complete a course of study and affect their ability to be placed in a career internship or a job.

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Daily Attendance

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Daily attendance is kept by each teacher. Parents will be notified if the student is expected for class, but is not present.

Students, parents, school staff, and possible law enforcement personnel will work together to resolve issues resulting in poor attendance when necessary.

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Tardiness

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Students are considered tardy if they arrive to class after the beginning of the morning or afternoon session.

Any student who is tardy to school due to a medical appointment is expected to obtain a note from the medical office where he/she was seen.

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Punctuality and reliability are expectations in the workplace, tardiness issues will be addressed by the staff at PACE with the student and parent with a goal of resolving the problem.

 

DISCLOSURE OF STUDENTS’ RECORDS

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The PACE Career Academy will disclose information from a student’s educational records only with the written consent of the parent or eligible student, except when there is a legitimate interest to know and under circumstances provided by law, the school may disclose student information from educational records without the written consent of the parent of the student or the eligible student:

1. To school officials who have a legitimate educational interest in the records. A school official is a person employed by the school as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff member, a person elected to the school board, or a person employed by or under contract to the district to perform a special task, such as an attorney, auditor, medical consultants or therapists. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official is performing a task that is specified in his or her position description or by a contract agreement, performing a task related to a student’s education, performing a task related to the discipline of a student, or providing a service or benefit relating to the student or student’s family, such as health care, counseling, or job placement.

2. To officials of another school in which a student seeks or intends to enroll upon request from such official.

3. To certain officials of the U.S. Department of Education, and state and local education authorities, in connection with certain state or federally supported education programs.

4. In connection with a student’s request for or receipt of financial aid, as necessary to

5. Determine the eligibility, amount or conditions of the financial aid, or to enforce the terms and conditions of the aid.

6. To accrediting organizations to carry out their functions.

7. To parents of a dependent student as defined in the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, Section 152.

8. To comply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena, provided that the District makes a reasonable effort to notify the parent or student of the order or subpoena in advance of compliance.

 

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