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Aurora West USD 129 board reviews updates to student rights, health and discipline policies
Summary
The board reviewed proposed changes to the district's student rights and responsibilities, including required health screenings, expanded self-carry medication authorizations, an updated head-lice response, additions to multidisciplinary teams for end-of-life planning, and limits on student cell phone use.
Aurora West USD 129 Board of Education members heard a multi-part policy update during the April 21 meeting that would revise the district’s student rights and responsibilities and related health and discipline policies.
The proposed changes, presented by Marty Nearing, the district’s executive director of student and family services, would add several health-screening and exam requirements, expand authorization for students to self-carry certain emergency medications, establish a formal head-lice response procedure that does not require exclusion from school, clarify the multidisciplinary team for rare end-of-life decisions, and implement an “off and away” approach to student cell phones in most grades.
Nearing said the revisions reflect recent state guidance and input from parents, staff, students and legal counsel and asked the board to consider a two-step process for approving the rights-and-responsibilities update. She said the review teams have been “inclusive of parents, administrators, staff, students, and our legal counsel.”
Key proposals discussed
- Health screenings and exams: The update would require appropriate developmental and social-emotional screenings to…
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