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Council Rock committee reviews student accident insurance policy, asks administration to clarify family notification
Summary
The districtreviewed proposed edits to Policy 211 (student accident insurance), clarified the district provides secondary coverage for school-sponsored activities at no cost to families, and asked administration to return with recommended language on how and when families are notified.
Tracy Osecki, chair of the Council Rock School District policy committee, opened discussion Monday on Policy 211, student accident insurance, saying the draft clarifies the district—s coverage for injuries that occur during school-sponsored activities.
The committee emphasized that the district provides secondary accident insurance at no cost to students or families for injuries occurring during school-sponsored activities such as clubs, co-curricular programs and interscholastic sports. "The district does provide secondary accident insurance at no cost to the student, or the parent," Osecki said.
Committee members pressed staff for details about notice to families. Michael Roosevelt, school board member, urged adding language about when families are informed: "Where does that fall?" he asked about off-site trips such as the Disney trip. Roosevelt later suggested including language specifying that parents and guardians will be notified "no later than an injury" so families know coverage exists before an incident.
Superintendent Andy Sanko and staff said existing practice is to notify families when an incident occurs and that school nurses or athletic trainers ordinarily inform parents and describe the availability of secondary coverage. "My experience has been that when an incident occurs, that's when parents are notified," Sanko said. Several board members said they wanted administration and the district solicitor to review whether and how to add notice language without creating unintended legal or liability issues.
The committee asked administration to follow up. Osecki said she would circulate staff recommendations by email and target a decision at the February full-board voting meeting. "You can follow-up with us as a board by email and then we can probably still proceed with it on the February voting," she said.
No formal vote was taken in committee on Monday; members agreed to ask staff to research notice practice and solicitor guidance and return with proposed wording for the policy.
Ending: The committee kept the main substantive change to Policy 211 as clarifying the district's secondary coverage and instructed administration to research notice language and solicitor guidance for a follow-up report to the board ahead of February action.
