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Board hears multiple policy updates; policy committee keeps current cellphone rules under review
Summary
District staff reviewed new and revised policy proposals — including mandatory restorative-practice and military-children policies and updated special-education and leave policies — and said the policy committee recommended no immediate changes to several technical items, while a stakeholder group will study high-school cellphone rules.
District staff reviewed a set of new and revised board policies and technical edits during a Wallingford School District Board of Education meeting, describing several mandatory actions required by recent state public acts and explaining committee recommendations for further stakeholder review on cellphone rules.
The presenter (identified in the transcript as district staff responsible for policy updates) said the district is proposing a new mandatory policy on restorative practices to align with the Connecticut school climate policy approved in August. The presenter also described a proposed policy (policy 6159) on individualized education plans that had been updated to reflect new statutory provisions (the transcript cites “public act number 25-67, public act number 25-143 and public act number 25-15”) and said the updated guidance moves that item from a recommended to a mandatory policy. The presenter said the planning and…
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