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Parents and community voice objections to proposed policy language on parental notification and student privacy
Summary
Parents and community members urged Revere Board of Education to revise proposed parental-notification policy language and to add protections for students who might be endangered by mandatory written notifications.
Public commenters at the Revere Board of Education meeting on May 20 urged the board and administration to revise several policy changes posted for first reading — including a new policy framed as a Parent Bill of Rights — and asked the district to clarify how it will handle parental notification when students disclose sexual orientation or gender identity.
Whitney Thornton Dunlap, who identified herself as a parent and policy advocate, said the agenda included many items and that mandated policies need clarity and transparency. She asked the board to avoid inserting statutory law text verbatim into district policy, and referenced "the Eames case" in relation to sunshine/open‑meetings concerns. She urged the board to add…
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