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School board reviews first-read policies on course payment for hard-to-staff roles, paid mental-health day and community use of outdoor fields
Summary
Board members considered first readings of a tuition-payment policy for hard-to-staff positions, a paid mental-health day for 10-month employees plus a distinguished service day for employee-of-the-month, and a change allowing free use of outdoor school facilities.
At its Sept. 8 meeting, the Southampton County School Board reviewed three policies as first reads: a policy to permit direct payment of tuition for coursework for employees in designated hard-to-staff positions, a policy creating a paid mental-health day for 10-month employees plus a paid “distinguished service” day for employee-of-the-month recipients, and a revision to community-use rules to allow use of outdoor school facilities at no charge.
The tuition-payment policy, drafted by HR coordinator Miss Hutchison and reviewed by counsel, would allow the division to pay tuition directly to an institution…
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