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Board reviews revised nondiscrimination and Title IX procedures after federal changes and community feedback
Summary
BVSD staff returned draft updates to policy AC and implementing regulations ACR and ACR-2 to reflect federal Title IX regulatory changes and community counsel. The revisions remove or reorganize technical definitions, incorporate advisory committee input that policy language should reduce barriers to reporting, and clarify immediate reporting and
The board studied changes to board policy AC (nondiscrimination) and related regulations ACR and ACR-2 on Tuesday following federal regulatory shifts and a year of local advisory input.
Why the change: Kathleen Sullivan, BVSD general counsel, told the board that federal Title IX regulations changed earlier this year and that the district is aligning its procedures and definitions to the current federal framework. At the same time Sullivan said district staff and the districtTitle IX advisory groups received consistent feedback that some policy language discouraged reporting or read as hostile to…
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