The Salt Lake City School District board on Dec. 2 approved the district’s revised strategic plan for student achievement and adopted multiple policy updates addressing governance and compliance.

Staff described the strategic plan changes as refinements to pillars on equity, access and student support, student achievement and career/college pathways, and staffing. Board members commended measures to reduce subgroup achievement gaps and requested additional subgroup targets and teacher participation metrics; the plan was approved and moved to the action agenda.

On governance, the board approved a new G30 public‑education hotline policy and administrative procedures to align with recent Utah Administrative Rule changes (as presented to the policy subcommittee). The policy requires the district to log and respond to referrals from the state hotline, document outreach attempts to reporters when not anonymous, and have leadership review Qualtrics responses before submission to the state. The policy and procedures were approved with the understanding the APs can be refined after initial adoption.

The board also approved amendments to student board member procedures to add a second student board member (not from the same school as the primary student member) and approved revisions to Board Policy B2 (board meetings) to clarify closed‑meeting procedures for certain sensitive student matters. The policy subcommittee said the changes are intended to increase student representation and to codify reasonable notification flexibility for confidential closed session requests.

What’s next: Staff will implement the strategic plan and return required monitoring and accountability reports; district leadership will complete required board training on the public‑education hotline and update AP language if operational experience indicates changes are needed.