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Red Clay board approves 2025-26 calendar, sole-source contract and rescinds amended Title IX language
Summary
At its March 19 meeting the Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education approved the 2025-26 school-year calendar, authorized a sole-source contract and voted to rescind a recently expanded harassment/grievance policy tied to the 2024 Title IX rule changes.
The Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education voted on three action items at its March 19 meeting, approving the 2025-26 school-year calendar, authorizing a sole‑source contract and rescinding a policy change related to Title IX grievance language.
The board approved the 2025-26 calendar on a voice vote after Kathy Thompson, board member, moved the motion and Miss English seconded. The motion carried with board members responding “Aye.”
The board then approved a sole‑source contract recommendation. Kathy Thompson moved the item and Miss English seconded; the board approved the contract by voice vote.
On a third action, the board voted to rescind Board Policy 4,005.1a, a revision concerning harassment and grievance procedure language the district had previously adopted in response to the U.S. Department of Education's 2024 Title IX regulations. The motion to rescind was moved by Kathy Thompson and seconded by Miss English. The board voted in favor; the motion carried.
Board President Matthews read short explanations of the items before each vote. Superintendent Dr. Darrell Green and other district staff were on the dais for the votes; no roll-call vote tallies were recorded in the meeting transcript, and the meeting record shows each item passed on a voice vote with board members indicating “Aye.”
What changed and why: Superintendent Green explained that the district had previously updated Title IX–related policy language after the Department of Education published new regulations in April 2024. A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky vacated those 2024 regulations on Jan. 9, 2025; the board said it was rescinding the district policy language to align with the vacatur and return to the prior Title IX framework.
The approved calendar and the sole‑source contract had no substantive debate recorded in the public transcript beyond the motions and standard confirmation that the motions were moved, seconded and carried.
The board did not record a detailed roll-call vote in the public transcript for any of the three items; the audio record shows the board adopting each item by unanimous voice vote.
Votes at a glance - Approve 2025-26 school-year calendar. Motion: moved by Kathy Thompson; second: Miss English; Outcome: approved (voice vote). - Approve sole‑source contract (description not specified in the public transcript). Motion: moved by Kathy Thompson; second: Miss English; Outcome: approved (voice vote). - Rescind Board Policy 4,005.1a (harassment and grievance language adopted in response to 2024 Title IX regulations). Motion: moved by Kathy Thompson; second: Miss English; Outcome: approved (voice vote).
The board did not provide additional implementation dates or contract vendor names for the sole‑source item during the public meeting; those details are not specified in the meeting transcript and are expected to appear in BoardDocs or subsequent meeting materials.
