Board considers open-enrollment changes, testing opt-outs and smartwatch rules during policy readings

Provo — The Provo School District Board of Education took up multiple policy readings at the Jan. 14 study session, including proposed changes to open-enrollment policy, testing opt-out procedures and an update to student electronic-device restrictions that clarifies smartwatch use.

Nut graf: Staff described edits intended to clarify deadlines and definitions in the open-enrollment policy (for example, defining ‘grade reconfiguration’ and requiring online application submissions), to align testing opt-out forms with state law and to clarify how…