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Committee recommends board-directed process, not mandatory referendum, for high-school reconfiguration study
Summary
Members favored removing the non-binding referendum requirement from Policy 119 and asked administration to draft a tailored process for studying high‑school configuration, including community engagement and data analysis, to be presented to the full board.
The policy committee reviewed Policy 119 (high‑school configuration) on May 6, 2025, and signaled a preference for replacing the policy’s prescriptive task‑force and automatic non‑binding referendum language with a board‑approved process tailored to current conditions.
Administration and committee members said the level of controversy that prompted the original policy has abated and that the board would be better served by a flexible, board‑directed study process. Committee members suggested the board should receive a draft plan…
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