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Committee advances board-code and public-comment changes for full-board consideration

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The Policy & Personnel Committee moved bylaws updates — a code of conduct, revised public-comment timing and committee-structure review — to the full board for further review; the public-comment change (2 to 3 minutes) will be discussed by the full board.

The Bridgeport School District Policy & Personnel Committee advanced proposed bylaw changes on Aug. 21, 2025, sending a draft code of conduct, a proposal to lengthen public-comment time and a review of committee structure to the full Board of Education for further consideration.

Board Chair Jennifer Perez told the committee the code-of-conduct language is intended to be proactive: "One of the recommendations ... had to do with putting in place systems that would prevent us from even getting that point," Perez said, referring to mechanisms to avoid conduct violations. The draft code (Bylaw 9110) expands on existing language and is modeled on…

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