A copy of Truth’s SY2024-2025 Student and Family Handbook can be found here.

Among other things, the handbook includes information about arrival, dismissal, attendance, our dress code, our behavior and discipline policies, how parents can report grievances or complaints, and a notification of rights under FERPA. If you have any questions about the handbook or the policies it outlines, please email us at info@truthpcs.org.

Reporting Absences

If your student is going to miss a class period or a full day, please let us know by emailing excusenotes@truthpcs.org. This allows us to then make sure your student’s teachers are aware, and also for us to excuse the absence when appropriate.

Truth’s Home and Hospital Instruction policy (including a link to apply for HHI) is here.

Truth’s Continuous Education Plan (CEP)

Click here to find an updated copy of Truth’s Continuous Education Plan from SY2023-2024. (*note: This version was last updated on 8/30/2023)

Additional Resources:

• Truth PCS screencast introducing how to log in to Summit Learning as a parent (use password “Truth2020” if prompted)

• Meal sites for DC Public Charter School students (locations and times)

• DC’s Coronavirus Resource Page

• ChAMPS  (CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MOBILE PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE) OF CATHOLIC CHARITIES(202) 481-1440 24/7 Crisis Line 24/7 Crisis Line

• CFSA 2026717233

• Suicide Hotline: 800-SUICIDE/800-784-2433

• Psychiatric Emergency Service (24 hrs): 202-561-7000

• Crisis and Family Stress (24 hrs): 202-223-2255

• La Clinica del Pueblo (Spanish): 202-462-4788

• CPS Washington, DC: 202-442-6000/202-671-7233 (After 5pm)

• DC Rape Crisis Center (24 hrs): 202-333-RAPE/202-333-7273

• ADAPT Program Intake Line (for abusive men): 703-968-4000/703-968-4052

• Andromeda Transcultural Mental Health Center: 202-291-4707

  (Monday-Friday, 9AM–5PM, Spanish available)

• Battered Women’s Shelter, Arlington: 703-237-0881

• Center of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington: 202-743-7772

• Child Abuse Hotlines: 800-552-7096/800-422-4453

• Children & Family Services Division: 202-727-0284

• D.C. Adult Protective Services Hotline: 202-541-3950

• Domestic Violence Hotlines: 800-799-7233

• Family Violence and Sexual Assault Hotlines: 800-838-8238/800-656-4673

• House of Ruth Domestic Violence Hotline (24 hrs): 202-667-7001

• My Sister’s Place (24 hrs): 202-529-5991

• Runaway Switchboard (Teen Shelter): 800-SAY-TEEN/800-729-8336

• Women’s Shelter, Fairfax: 703-435-4940

• DC Access Hotline: (877) 7WE-HELP

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: (800) 273-8255

• National Youth Crisis Hotline: (800) 442-4673