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Board debates volunteer vs. visitor rules, sends policies 7009 and 6012 to legal for clarification
Summary
Trustees spent more than an hour questioning district policy language on volunteer criminal-background checks and visitor access. The board voted to send Policy 7009 (volunteers) and Policy 6012 (visitors) to outside counsel Miller Johnson for review and recommended clarifying language.
The Oak Park School District Board of Education spent a lengthy portion of its April 14 meeting debating how district policy distinguishes volunteers from visitors and what criminal convictions bar someone from volunteering.
The dispute centered on two policies: Policy 7009, which governs volunteers and criminal-background checks, and Policy 6012, which covers visitors and gives the superintendent authority to adopt administrative regulations. Trustee Deidre Goldberg moved, and Trustee Pearman seconded, a motion to have the district law firm Miller Johnson review both policies and recommend clearer…
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