This handbook is intended to provide students and parents with a narrative summary of their rights and responsibilities in California public schools. Implications of laws and state regulations, as well as pertinent court decisions, are presented in such areas as student behavior (including discipline, corporal punishment, and dress codes), educational opportunity (including proficiency standards, school attendance of married or pregnant students, and exclusion from school), free speech (including student independent newspapers, student representation on governing boards, religion, and student organizations), law enforcement agencies and the schools (including search and seizure), information disclosure by schools (parental information and student records), and legal restrictions on school districts and school personnel. (Author/DS)