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Board approves background-check guidelines, updates to personnel and substitute policies and student suicide prevention policy
Summary
Trustees reviewed and approved multiple administrative guidelines and policy revisions including rolling background checks, changes to suspension/dismissal notice requirements, a revised substitute compensation schedule effective July 1, 2025, and a student suicide awareness and prevention policy to comply with Indiana law.
Elkhart Community Schools trustees approved several policy and administrative guideline updates May 27 covering personnel screening, employment-contract notice requirements, substitute compensation and suicide-prevention training.
The administration presented an administrative guideline that formalizes background and reference check procedures for new hires and schedules rolling background checks for current employees every five years. Presenters emphasized this is an administrative guideline and does…
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