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School board reviews draft homework policy, asks for family‑focused regulations
Summary
At a Sept. 15 work session the school board reviewed a draft homework policy (BP 6154) that would require regular homework in grades 4–12 and encourage homework in K–3; trustees asked administration to develop administrative regulations clarifying time expectations, family supports and differentiation by grade and course.
Miss Dillard, student discipline and policy specialist, presented a proposed homework policy at the Sept. 15 school board work session, saying, “Homework shall be assigned regularly in grades 4 through 12.” She added, “Homework shall be encouraged in grades K through 3.”
The draft grew from an earlier spring policy committee discussion and a summer survey of building principals and leadership teams. Dillard told trustees the policy had attracted substantial feedback and that much of that feedback would inform administrative regulation: “There was a lot of good suggestions that helped us refine this policy language,” she said.
Why it matters: trustees said the policy could affect equity, instructional rigor…
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