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Accountability & Policies

ACCOUNTABILITY

The latest accountability documents can be found below: 
 
 
Annual Budgets
 
Financial Reports
 
Audited Financials
 
Campus Improvement Plans (including board goals mandated by SB3)
 
Federal Report Cards
 
School Report Cards
 
School Accountability Ratings
 
Texas Academic Performance Reports

Title IX and Anti-Discrimination Statement

As required by law, under Title IX, Meridian School does not discriminate on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that we operate in either student admission and employment.
 
 
Inquiries about the application of Title IX to Meridian School maybe referred to: 
    • Student complaints: Title IX Coordinator Monique Swain (512-660-5230 Ext 161) 
    • Employee complaints: Title IX Coordinator Stephanie Richardson (512-660-5230 Ext 222)
         and/or
    • Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education
Title IX Training Documents for Title IX Coordinators, Investigators and Deciders
 

Student Health Advisory Committee/Related Notices (SHAC)

Meridian School ensures that students engage in the amount and level of physical activity required by Tex. Educ. Code §28.002. Meridian School does not offer vending machines on campus. The school has adopted and enforces policies and procedures that penalize the use of tobacco products (including e-cigarattes) by students and others on school grounds or at school-sponsored or school-related activities. Parents/guardians may require in writing their child’s physical fitness assessment results at the conclusion of the school year. Meridian School has one full-time nurse and clinic aides. Meridian School employs five counselors and a part-time college counselor. The Student Health Advisory Committee (SHAC) met four times in the 2022-2023 school year.
November 13, 2023: Minutes and Recording
 
January 22, 2024: Minutes and Recording

School Policies

Board policies
Academic policies

 

Freedom of Information Requests

For Freedom of Information Requests or Public Information Requests, please email Sarah Gardner with our Office of Community Engagement. Please put FOIR - Freedom of Information Request in the email title. Written requests should be for information already in existence. 

 

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99) is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student educational records and provides parents and eligible students with access to their education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. See details.

 

 

Our program is designed for all students and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, age, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, religion, disability, academic, athletic, or artistic ability, or the district the child would otherwise attend without regard to disability or handicapping condition, in administration or educational policies, admission and hiring policies and other school administered programs.
 
As an open enrollment public charter school, there are no academic admissions requirements and no tuition.