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Board weighs broader drug-screening and background checks for volunteers; substitutes raise contract questions
Summary
The board considered policy language to strengthen the district's drug-free workplace enforcement and to require drug screening for volunteer coaches; members asked whether substitute teachers (hired through third-party ESS) should also be included.
The Maury County Board of Education reviewed proposed clarifying language to its drug-free workplace and volunteer policies that would broaden administrative options for handling positive drug screens and would require volunteer coaches to submit to drug screening and criminal-history checks.
Human-resources staff explained the revision aims to make enforcement clearer and to strengthen the district's position in unemployment appeals. "This language...would give my office more credence with the unemployment office as to when we have to fight an unemployment dispute," Miss Jordan (HR staff) told the board, noting positive post-accident or…
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