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Rowan County board reviews statewide KSBA policy updates including electronic communications rule
Summary
The board reviewed a packet of Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) policy revisions, including a requirement to designate a single traceable communication system for employee-to-student electronic contact, a 30-day paid maternity leave option, changes to evaluation cycles and new civics/financial-literacy graduation requirements.
The Rowan County Board of Education on June 17 reviewed a set of KSBA policy revisions and state-driven changes that would require local policy updates, including naming one traceable electronic communication system for any employee or volunteer to use with students.
The packet presented by instructional staff member Miss Carver said the district received the KSBA revisions and highlighted several items for board attention, including: a policy (listed in the packet as “3.1233”) that would allow up to 30 paid maternity leave days for employees who give birth; a change extending mandatory summative teacher evaluation cycles from every three years to every five years; a new graduation requirement adding civics and financial literacy components; a required moment of silence at the start of the school day; kindergarten retention rules tied to progress; and a requirement to designate a single traceable…
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