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Board approves revised District of Innovation plan; administration seeks exemptions for grievance and library statutes
Summary
Trustees voted 6-0 to approve revisions to the district’s District of Innovation (DOI) plan. The administration requested exemptions intended to preserve the district’s existing grievance processes and to reduce statutory burdens on local library advisory work; several requested Chapter 37 exemptions were removed because law now prohibits them.
The Northwest ISD Board of Trustees on Monday approved a revised District of Innovation plan that, according to administrators, seeks targeted exemptions from recent state statutory changes while removing previously requested discipline-related exemptions that the legislature disallowed.
Administration and the DOI committee recommended four main sets of changes: grievances, library collections and challenges, and a set of proposed exemptions tied to student-discipline provisions that the recent legislative session made unavailable for DOI plans.
On grievances, administrators said new Chapter 26A provisions in the Texas Education Code permit complainants to amend and supplement grievances late in the process and to file complaints up…
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