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Board reviews extensive VSBA policy updates; several items moved toward action agenda
Summary
The policy committee summarized numerous model updates from the Virginia School Boards Association — including emergency response, opioid-related measures, weapons, accelerated math placement, student records, and felon-employment language — and recommended selected items be placed on the action agenda for full-board consideration.
The Manassas City School Board’s policy committee presented a large package of Virginia School Boards Association model-policy updates and related local modifications and asked the full board for guidance on several items.
Policy Chair Stevens summarized the committee’s review, noting the VSBA updates included emergency management (adding athletic emergency action plans, bleeding-control and cardiac arrest protocols), expanded language on communication after threat assessments, and new material on first aid, CPR and AED certification. "The VSBA added additional language and now includes an athletic emergency action plan, bleeding control program, and cardiac arrest plan," Stevens said.
Other model changes raised by the committee include: - Opioid response: a proposed policy to permit school employees to administer an opioid antagonist in suspected overdoses (the committee has addressed this as a regulation and said a separate policy…
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