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Community urges retention of broad disciplinary review team as board clarifies discipline policies
Summary
A Coalition for Black Student Achievement speaker urged the board to preserve a multidisciplinary Discipline Review Committee; district legal staff proposed revisions that set minimum DRC membership and allow expulsion extensions under threat‑assessment recommendations while trimming language and clarifying repetitive offense coding.
A public speaker from the Coalition for Black Student Achievement asked the Palm Beach County School Board to preserve wide multidisciplinary staffing on Discipline Review Committees (DRCs), and district staff presented proposed clarifications to student discipline and expulsion policy language.
Dr. Deborah Robinson told the board she opposed changes that would remove principals, ESE and behavioral/mental‑health representation from DRCs; she proposed adding non‑district experts if district staff participation is a barrier and asked the board to “pause” policy changes until outstanding legal issues are resolved.
District staff…
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