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District staff review four technical policy updates including suicide prevention, attendance and medication administration
Summary
The Instructional Committee reviewed four noncontroversial policy and regulation edits Dec. 2: suicide prevention wording clarifications, attendance/truancy legal reference updates, medication administration updates (annual epinephrine training and paraeducator title change), and revised homeless children and youth forms and definitions.
District staff reviewed a package of four technical policy/regulation/form updates at the Dec. 2 Instructional Committee meeting and described the revisions as technical and noncontroversial.
Staff summarized the changes as follows: • Suicide prevention and intervention policy: clarified language to reflect that staff perception of a student being at risk triggers the district response pathways (policy/regulation wording adjustment). • Attendance, truancy and chronic absenteeism: updated legal references and aligned regulatory language to recent public‑act language allowing flexibility for how parents/guardians report absences and adding language related to students who are also parents seeking adult education (legal references noted during the presentation). • Administration of medications (Policy 5141.21): added a definition of "qualified school personnel," changed the statutory title "paraprofessional" to "paraeducator," aligned to a public act requiring annual training for staff authorized to administer epinephrine (with or without parent authorization), and supplied two new forms for parent authorization/refusal. • Homeless children and youth (Policy 5118.1): updated definitions to include "youth" and added model forms (enrollment documentation, residency affidavits, and appeal forms) drawn from counsel‑provided templates.
During the presentation staff noted the redline policy packets in the meeting materials and highlighted where legal references and forms were added. A board member asked for clarification about the expanded definition of "homeless children and youth," and staff pointed to the added wording in the regulation to cover older unaccompanied minors.
No controversial changes or substantive policy debates were recorded on the transcript; the packet was presented as technical edits with forms to be posted on the district website as model documentation.
