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Board committee reviews nondiscrimination, IDEA alignment and health-care policies and clarifies meeting-posting rules
Summary
The Policy Governance and Legislation Committee on Aug. 12 reviewed redrafted district policies to align nondiscrimination language with federal and recent state requirements, updated special-education definitions to reflect IDEA’s least-restrictive-environment principle, clarified health-care management rules for medically complex students and discussed meeting-packet posting timelines.
The Policy Governance and Legislation Committee reviewed several policy updates and procedural clarifications on Aug. 12, including a redraft of the district’s nondiscrimination statement, alignment of special-education definitions and least-restrictive-environment language with IDEA, updates to health-care management procedures for students, and a discussion about meeting-packet posting timelines.
Nondiscrimination and Title IX alignment
A policy adviser introduced revisions to Policy 1009 (nondiscrimination) to align district language with federal requirements and recent Tennessee statutory language noted in the draft. The update adds explicit prohibitions against retaliation and coercion, names the Title IX coordinator and requires annual dissemination of the nondiscrimination notice to employees, students and…
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