Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Board committees adopt revisions to special-education and discipline policies, add seclusion and sensory-room definitions
Summary
Committees voted to revise the district’s IDDF policy on students with exceptionalities to add crisis intervention, clarify seclusion and sensory rooms and rewrite physical restraint definitions; they also waived waiting periods to adopt JD (discipline) and JVA (corporal punishment) changes tied to recent state acts.
Beauregard Parish policy committee on Nov. 10 approved a package of policy revisions affecting students with exceptionalities and discipline.
A policy presenter reviewed revisions to file IDDF (education of students with exceptionalities) that the committee said reflect changes in state law. The update adds crisis intervention and positive behavior supports to definitions, replaces the phrase "imminent danger" with "imminent risk…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
