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Colchester board advances revised weapons policy, separates firearms into required state policy
Summary
Board approved a second reading of a revised weapons policy that gives administrators discretion to bring students to the school board for expulsion under defined criteria; the board also approved a first reading of a separate firearms policy required by state statute.
The Colchester School District Board of Directors on May 20 approved a second reading of a revised weapons policy (F24) and held a first reading of a separate firearms policy to comply with state statute.
District staff told the board the weapons-policy rewrite removes automatic referral of all weapon-related incidents to the school board and instead gives the superintendent, in consultation with the board chair, discretion to bring a case to the board for an expulsion hearing. The revised language says that "any student who brings a weapon or possesses a weapon at school may be brought by the superintendent to the school board for an expulsion hearing" and lists…
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