Blue Springs School District

The board of education is prohibited from and hereby declares a policy against, engaging in unlawful discrimination, including harassment, creating a hostile environment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. 

As part of this obligation, the board is also prohibited from, and Declares a policy against:

(1) Retaliatory actions based on making complaints of prohibited discrimination or participation in an investigation, formal proceeding or informal resolution concerning prohibited discrimination;

(2) Aiding, abetting, inciting, compelling or coercing discrimination; and

(3) Discrimination against any person because of such person’s association with a person protected from discrimination due to one or more of the above-stated characteristics.

Compliance Coordinators To ensure that these obligations are met, the board designates the following individual to act as the district’s nondiscrimination laws compliance coordinators, who shall also be the appointee for all laws specifically mandating such an appointment:

Staff Related Inquiries, including Title IX:

Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources
Blue Springs School District
1801 NW Vesper Blue Springs, Missouri 64015
(816) 874-3200
Fax (816) 224-1764

Student Related Inquiries, including Title IX:
Director of Community Services
Blue Springs School District
1801 NW Vesper Blue Springs, Missouri 64015
(816) 874-3200
Fax (816) 224-1425

Student Disability Related Inquiries:
Assistant Director of Special Education
Blue Springs School District
1801 NW Vesper Blue Springs, Missouri 64015
(816) 874-3200
Fax (816) 228-1056

Facility Related Inquiries:
Director of Buildings and Grounds
Blue Springs School District
1801 NW Vesper Blue Springs, Missouri 64015
(816) 874-3200
Fax (816) 228-4818

Any employee of the district or member of the board of education who becomes apprised of a possible violation of this policy must report the matter to the appropriate compliance coordinator and/or building principal. Students must report any matter of alleged discrimination to the building principal. In the event the building principal is the subject of the report, reports should instead be directed to the appropriate compliance coordinator who will assume the building principal’s duties for the purpose of that complaint.

The administration will establish an effective grievance procedure and take any other actions necessary to carry out this policy, with due regard for the substantive and procedural rights of all parties concerned.

To the extent permitted by law, any public record held by this school district that is generated or received pursuant to this policy shall be closed and available only to the board acting as a quorum, a committee appointed by the board to carry out this policy on a permanent or ad hoc basis, the compliance coordinators and other administrators whose duties require access to the record in order to carry out this policy. Such persons may share access, on an individual basis, to such records with complainants or participants in a grievance or other resolution, only to the extent such disclosure promotes the purposes of this policy and is not prohibited by FERPA or any other law. Certain other limited disclosures may be required when material in the records is integral to an action affecting a constitutionally recognized property or liberty interest.

A copy of this policy will be posted in a public area of each building used for instruction and/or administrative offices. A copy of this policy will also be distributed annually to employees, parents or guardians, and students. The administration is directed to further publicize this policy and provide for such training or instruction as necessary to ensure district wide compliance with anti-discrimination laws, including instruction in recognizing behavior indicative of a violation of this policy.