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Board reviews proposed edits to elementary, middle and high school handbooks
Summary
District administrators presented proposed 2025–26 changes to elementary, middle and high school handbooks, including integrating preschool into the elementary handbook, adding smartwatches to device rules and expanding language about alternative programming.
District administrators presented recommended updates to the 2025–26 student handbooks at the elementary, middle and high school levels and discussed the changes with trustees.
At the elementary level, administrators said the largest change is integrating preschool into each building's handbook (a preschool addendum will be included rather than a separate preschool handbook). Presenters said they added latex to the life-threatening allergy section, clarified dress-code language and aligned a prohibition on hoods with middle-school policy. The elementary handbook also explicitly added "smartwatches" to the device rules used during standardized testing and school hours, and it raised the wind-chill threshold for outdoor restrictions to 10 degrees based on…
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