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Mt Vernon board adopts 2025–26 handbooks; attendance, AI and virtual rules revised
Summary
The school board approved handbook revisions across elementary through high school that update attendance language, add AI guidance, clarify virtual‑program enrollment and tighten online‑course rules for athletic eligibility.
The Mt Vernon Community School Corp board voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt handbook changes for the 2025–26 school year that affect attendance notices, food-and-treat guidance, artificial-intelligence guidelines, virtual‑program rules and athletic eligibility.
Administrators presented coordinated revisions for elementary, intermediate, middle and high school handbooks and explained the intent was consistency across buildings and alignment with recent attendance-law changes.
At the elementary level, a speaker identified as an elementary assistant principal said the handbook removes a prearranged-absence section and reflects that “all students… get 10 parent verified absences.” The elementary updates also simplify food-and-treat wording to defer to the county board of health and the district’s approved snack list, remove outdated…
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