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School committee adopts revised attendance, grading and assessment policies; detailed procedures moved to handbooks
Summary
The committee approved three policy updates that move several operational details into district procedures and student handbooks, including changing how skipped classes are handled and advancing competency-based grading work. Members requested accessible procedure links and staged rollouts for different grade spans.
The Manchester School Committee on March 10 approved revisions to three district policies addressing grading, attendance and assessment, moving several procedural details out of policy and into district procedures and the student handbook.
The teaching-and-learning team urged the change, saying portions of the existing policy language are better maintained as procedures. "It is our recommendation that, what you see marked out would live in procedure," said Leslie Whitney, executive director of teaching and learning, describing work already underway with a standing committee.
Attendance policy: the board removed language that treated a student's failure to attend an…
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