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Board reviews MSBA policy updates and local changes to student drug-testing language
Summary
At a workshop the Grain Valley R-V board reviewed multiple Missouri School Boards’ Association (MSBA) policy updates (DFA, DFA-2, DD/JFCA, GBCBB, IGBCA) and considered a local revision (JFCI-1) clarifying limited use of drug testing to reduce discipline or shorten suspensions and to require district-prescribed lab testing for reentry conditions.
Board members reviewed a package of policy updates recommended by the Missouri School Boards’ Association (MSBA) and considered a locally tailored change to the student drug- and alcohol-testing policy (JFCI-1).
JFCI-1 (student alcohol and drug testing): administrators proposed revised local language clarifying that drug and alcohol testing would not be used to determine whether a student is under the influence, but could be used, at the discretion of administration, to reduce discipline or shorten the length of a long-term suspension as a condition of reentry. The policy draft…
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