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Board approves policy updates on library access and field-trip rooming; administration to add procedural safeguards
Summary
The board voted to approve a package of 14 policy updates, including a new process letting parents block specific library titles and aligning field-trip sleeping arrangements with state statute; administrators said they will publish procedures and notice for parents.
The Henderson County Board of Public Education approved 14 policy updates Oct. 13 that implement changes required by state law and add local clarifications on parental access to instructional materials and overnight rooming on school trips.
Under the library-related changes, the district will make a searchable, web-based catalog of classroom and media center holdings available on each school’s homepage; the policy states that “any request by a student’s parent that the student be prohibited from borrowing certain library books will…
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