The Colchester School District Board approved a second and final reading to reorganize and renumber the district’s policy manual, a change intended to make policies easier for students, families and community members to find.

District staff said the reorganization groups policies by theme rather than by the historical, incremental numbering used when policies were first added. Megan and staff presented the reorganization at a prior meeting and told the board no substantive policy changes were made in the reordering.

Staff warned that for about a year there will be parallel numbering on the website so printed policies with the old numbers remain locatable; the district intends to keep the basic manual structure where possible and to preserve numbering for many policies that remain in the same place. The board voted to approve the reorganization as a second and final reading.

The reorganization is administrative and aims to improve access to existing policies; staff said the work to implement the new numbering will take place over the summer.