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Uxbridge School Committee: dog program to proceed after plan, policy work
Summary
After a long discussion about a school-based comfort dog called Cash, the Uxbridge School Committee asked the superintendent to write an annual implementation plan and referred the draft policy back to the policy subcommittee to address allergies, opt-outs and operational details.
The Uxbridge School Committee on April 15 took the first formal steps toward integrating a comfort/therapy dog into district schools, directing the superintendent to produce a written implementation plan and asking the policy subcommittee to rework the draft policy before a formal second reading.
Committee members spent the evening weighing potential benefits — including reading programs and crisis de-escalation — against practical concerns such as student allergies, inclusion and daily handler responsibility. The committee’s direction was procedural: keep a light-touch policy umbrella and require the superintendent to create an annual plan that sets…
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