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Board adopts streamlined student handbooks, adds QR flipbook and K–12 discipline rubrics
Summary
The board approved revised K–12 student handbooks for 2025–26: shorter handbooks with policy links, a flipbook/QR distribution method, consolidated elementary/middle handbook, updated transportation guidelines, updated meal charges, and newly created K–4 discipline rubric.
The Bentonville School District Board of Education voted July 15 to adopt revised student handbooks for the 2025–26 school year, consolidating some grade-level handbooks, adding a flipbook format with QR codes for distribution, and inserting updated discipline rubrics across K–12.
Aaron Hoover (presenting the handbook revisions) told the board the district condensed handbooks and moved policy text out of handbook pages to shorten high-school handbooks from roughly 117 pages to about 40 pages by linking to district policies. He described a flipbook…
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