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Coventry School Committee approves 2025–26 handbooks after debate over transgender-student accommodations
Summary
The Coventry School Committee voted to approve pre-K, elementary, middle- and high-school handbooks and the athletics handbook for 2025–26 after committee members debated policies on accommodations for transgender and gender-nonconforming students and how dress-code language aligns with facility use.
The Coventry School Committee approved updated handbooks for pre-K, elementary, middle and high school and an athletics handbook for the 2025–26 school year after discussion about how the district handles accommodations for transgender and gender-nonconforming students.
The committee voted to approve the pre-K, elementary and middle-school handbooks unanimously, and approved the high-school handbook by a 3–1 vote. The athletics handbook also passed 3–1.
Why it matters: Committee members said the handbook updates were mostly minor edits (names, dates, hyperlinks) but focused attention on language related to gender-nonconforming students and the district’s process for accommodations. One member said he thought parts of the handbook conflicted with the dress-code’s definition of “modest” and raised concerns about privacy in shared locker-room spaces. Committee…
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