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Committee approves Safe Schools membership updates and clarifies discipline policy language
Summary
The committee adopted Safe Schools Committee recommendations to add safety‑focused members and debated a discipline bill clarifying superintendent discretion on expulsions while urging board oversight and possible reporting when discretion is used; measures advanced by the committee.
Senator Sturch brought forward the Safe Schools Committee recommendations to add positions the committee deemed important for school safety oversight. Johnny Key, Commissioner of the Department of Education, described the measures as adopting recommendations from the Safe Schools Commission and listed new appointments the committee sought to add, including the director of the Criminal Justice Institute (or designee), a classroom teacher from the Arkansas State Teachers Association, an Emergency Management representative, a school psychologist appointed by the Arkansas…
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