School Board of Palm Beach County

RULE TITLE: Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention and Control.

RULE NUMBER: Policy 5.323.

SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Prevention and control of head lice in the schools.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: To update the provisions of Administrative Directive 5.102 and incorporate them into this new Board Policy. Amendments to the Directive, to be incorporated in this new Policy, include: The principal/principal's designee/school nurse are empowered to provide preventative information to parents/guardians to encourage prevention of the occurrence of head lice in schools; only non-instructional staff will perform classroom head-lice checks; exclusion from school, related to pediculosis, will occur only for students who have been found to have live head lice; such exclusion will commence at the end of the school day rather than immediately after the presence of live lice has been confirmed; and students found to have nits only, will be monitored by the school nurse/principal's designee once per week for two weeks, and they will not be excluded from school unless the presence of live head lice is discovered.

SPECIFIC RULEMAKING AUTHORITY: §§ 1001.41(2); 1001.42(22); 1001.43(7), Fla. Stat.

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: §§ 1001.41(1), (3); 1001.42(6); 1001.43(7)(a), Fla. Stat.

CONTACT PERSON: Lashandra Span or Ron Armstrong, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, FL 33406.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the Proposed Policy Development may promptly be obtained without cost from the District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm.

PUBLIC HEARING: It is anticipated that this policy development will be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on April 28, 2003, at 2:00 p.m., in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach, Fla. The meeting is open to the public.