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Uxbridge policy subcommittee to forward Section A with model background-checks; committee debates volunteer fingerprinting
Summary
The Uxbridge Schools policy subcommittee voted to forward recommended redlines for Section A to the full school committee and discussed removing a volunteer fingerprinting requirement in favor of procedural safeguards; Tracy Novak will supply redlined language reflecting the MASC model.
The Uxbridge Schools policy subcommittee on a virtual call agreed to forward recommended edits to Section A of the district policy manual to the full school committee and debated whether volunteers should be required to undergo fingerprinting.
The subcommittee reviewed a redline package and heard from Tracy Novak, a policy consultant, who recommended adopting the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) model language for background checks. "If you update to our updated version, that will drop the fingerprinting requirement for volunteers," Novak said, describing the model as replacing the blanket fingerprint requirement with targeted checks and…
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