The Duxbury School Committee discussed extensive updates to several district policies Thursday after a report from the committee’s policy subcommittee.

Matt, speaking for the subcommittee, said the most substantially revised policies — AC, ACR and ACAB — were not included inline in the packet because the redlines would be extensive. He said the subcommittee made the revised policies available for members to compare with existing versions stored in the district drive and proposed bringing the policies back for a second reading.

Matt described AC and ACR as nondiscrimination policies that include harassment and retaliation language and said ACAB includes updated Title VII information and other modernization. He said ACA and ACAR address nondiscrimination under Title IX and the role of a Title IX coordinator, and ACGA provides a civil rights grievance procedure that highlights investigation components.

On public comment rules, the committee proposed edits to BEDH and BEDHE to reflect recent changes in practice. One committee member asked whether the changes to who may request placement on the agenda — and whether requests route through the superintendent or chair — reflected MASC guidance. Matt confirmed the updates draw on Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) guidance, saying the committee uses MASC updates as an anchor point when the updates have legal implications.

The committee settled on preparing clean copies of the revised policies and scheduling a second read at a forthcoming meeting; if no substantive questions arise in the interim, the policies would be added to a future consent agenda for final action.

No formal vote on policy adoption was recorded in the transcript; the recorded next step is a second reading and providing committee members with final clean copies in advance of that vote.

Committee members were reminded by Matt that MASC recommends first asking whether a policy is needed and then reviewing the recommended language; the subcommittee said changes were largely driven by legal updates and clarifying procedural steps for grievances, investigations and public-comment handling.