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Board, superintendent and Neola staff debate policy wording on oversight, social media and harassment procedures
Summary
At a Jan. 28 workshop, Neola consultants and Clay County School Board members reviewed a large policy manual update and discussed restoring board oversight language for procedures, tightening social-media rules for staff, adding legal counsel to harassment processes, and other clarifications.
Neola consultants Tom Widmer and Annette Martinson told the Clay County School Board at its Jan. 28 workshop that they have been working for six months on an overhaul of the district's policy manual. Widmer said the package includes roughly 200 documents across chapters for administrators, instructional staff and support staff and that the process is moving to chapter-by-chapter workshop review.
Board members and staff focused discussion on language governing policy procedures, social-media interactions between employees and students, and the role of legal counsel in certain complaint processes.
Board member (identified in the transcript as Miss Hanson) pressed to restore language that had been removed reading that the board "shall retain oversight supervision of such procedures." Board members and district legal staff clarified the difference between board oversight of whether administrative procedures conform to board policy and the…
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