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Committee approves middle‑school program of studies; handbooks get first reading amid cell‑phone policy concerns
Summary
The committee approved the 2025–26 middle‑school program of studies 5–2 after debate about the loss of a proposed 8th‑grade engineering/STEM class (funding and hiring constraints). Members also approved a first reading of the 2025–26 handbooks and asked policy subcommittee to examine inconsistent cell‑phone rules between middle and high school.
Superintendent McDonald presented the second reading of the middle‑school program of studies and noted no substantive changes since June. Members raised objections that an earlier proposal to add a grade‑8 engineering/STEM course (and move an 8th‑grade writing class to grade 7) did not appear in the current program because the position was cut in budget…
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