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Board rejects change to library‑materials selection language, approves minor procedural wording change
Summary
After extended debate over whether principals or librarians should have final approval and whether language should read 'policy' or 'regulation', the board rejected a proposed wording change in IIBDA (failed 5–1) and approved a housekeeping replacement in IIBDAB (unanimous in the transcript).
The Gloucester County School Board spent significant time on proposed policy language governing library materials selection and the reconsideration process.
One board member proposed replacing the final bullet in the library selection policy to read that approval by the building principal would be for "budgetary purposes only" (instead of final approval and purchase). The rationale was to avoid making a…
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