Committee sends ADA background‑check edits to full committee after legal review

The School Committee voted to bring policy ADDA, addressing background checks and ADA-related screening, to the full school committee for a first reading with legal edits incorporated. Committee members said legal counsel had reviewed the policy language and staff had worked with counsel to ensure required elements were included. Committee discussion focused on confirming that the edits supplied by legal matched the committee’s intent and that staff and legal had communicated the changes by email. No substantive debate about new authority or programmatic change was recorded; the committee moved the edited policy forward for a full-committee review and vote. The motion to bring ADDA forward was approved by roll call at the meeting; the policy will return to the full school committee for a first reading and subsequent votes as required by local process.