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Committee refocuses 'fire drill' policy into broader school safety drills, asks staff to place detailed drill definitions in regulation
Summary
The policy committee unanimously advanced edits to combine and reframe the fire‑drill policy as a broader school safety drills policy, directing staff to include operational definitions and drill details in regulation and to ensure records and notifications meet statutory requirements.
The policy committee on March 26 agreed to refocus an earlier fire‑drill policy into a broader "school safety drills" policy and advance the revised draft to the full Board of Education.
Staff said the rewrite responds to guidance from the Maryland State Department of Education and reflects a broader scope that includes fire drills, active assailant drills and other emergency exercises. The committee favored moving operational definitions and specific drill lists out of the policy text and into a regulation the superintendent will maintain so that the district can update drills and terminology without…
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