Board adopts 2025-26 academic standards and updates student handbooks

The Plymouth School Board voted to adopt academic standards for the 2025-26 school year that align with the Wisconsin State Standards; administrators recommended no changes. Scott, a staff member, referenced Act 55 (which he said took effect in 2015) as context for the district's annual review of standards and told the board the recommendation was to maintain the existing standards. The motion to adopt the 2025-26 academic standards passed on a voice vote. The board also approved proposed revisions to the high-school Orange Guide, updates to the middle-school parent handbook (including elaborified grading policy and enforcement of personal communication-device rules), and a lightly revised elementary-school student and parent handbook (primarily updated dates and names). Administrators said the high-school changes were discussed previously in Committee of the Whole and that principals were excused from the meeting; the board approved each handbook revision by motion and voice vote. No substantive changes to academic content were reported; the handbook updates focused on administrative details, grading-policy alignment between middle and high school, and conduct rules for personal devices.