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USD 453 board amends 2025–26 staff handbook to restrict badge content; personal lanyards allowed
5394762 · July 15, 2025
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Summary
The board approved a one-sentence edit to staff identification rules clarifying where badges must be worn and prohibiting items that promote tobacco, alcohol, violence or illegal substances; vote 6–1.
The USD 453 Board of Education on July 14 approved a one-sentence amendment to the 2025–26 staff handbooks clarifying staff identification badge expectations and acceptable lanyard content, voting 6–1.
Board member Karen Overby proposed the edit to require that staff badges "shall be worn ... and shall be displayed between…
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