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Port Washington committee debates dress code, discrimination definitions while updating district code of conduct
Summary
The Policy & Personnel Committee reviewed revisions to the district—ode of Character, Culture and Conduct, focusing on aligning definitions of discrimination and harassment across policies and on dress-code language after principals reported inconsistent practices on head coverings across buildings.
The Policy & Personnel Committee reviewed proposed revisions to the Port Washington Union Free School District—ode of Character, Culture and Conduct, focusing on alignment of harassment and discrimination definitions, the dress code nd how enforcement will be explained in school handbooks.
Committee members asked administrators to choose a single, consistent definition of "discrimination" to use across the code and related stand-alone policies (student harassment and bullying prevention). The committee directed staff to compare the district raft with the model NISPA language and return a recommendation on which definition should prevail so the code and the…
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