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Sarasota school board debates meeting schedule, student walkouts, dress code and vaping at Nov. 4 workshop
Summary
Board members confirmed a Nov. 7 special meeting to act on educational‑plant survey updates and spent the remainder of the Nov. 4 workshop debating board meeting times, student walkouts and attendance policy, dress‑code enforcement and vaping at Northport High.
At the Nov. 4 workshop the Sarasota County School Board engaged in extended discussion of internal governance and student‑policy issues after Superintendent Conner’s facility presentation. The board confirmed by consensus a special meeting on Nov. 7 at 10:00 a.m. to consider educational‑plant survey updates, and then debated the standing schedule and time of regular meetings for the coming year.
Several board members recounted strong public attendance at daytime meetings and urged maintaining a 10 a.m. time for regular monthly votes, while others urged rotating times or adding evening town halls to improve access for working families. Staff said the regular calendar is typically adopted at the board’s November…
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