The purpose of the Asthma Guidelines for Schools is to provide information that will ensure that school administrators, school health personnel, teachers and support staff understand how to monitor asthma control in the school setting. This can be accomplished if every student with asthma has a care plan and an emergency plan on file and it is updated annually. Additionally, we hope that these guidelines will help to identify students with poorly controlled asthma, so that parents can be encouraged to follow-up with the student’s primary care physician or other health care provider.