Policy committee moves medication and allergy policy updates to full board, adds nasal-spray epinephrine language

The Norwalk Board of Education policy committee on Dec. 10 voted to send edits to two student-health policies to the full board, including language to allow a newly approved nasal-spray form of epinephrine in schools and to rename state-linked programs previously labeled "school readiness."

Committee Chair (speaker 2) opened the meeting and identified the evening's presenters before asking members to consider revisions to Policy 5,001 (administration of student medications) and Policy 5,009 (management plan and guidelines for students with food allergies, glycogen storage disease and/or diabetes). Jennifer Rawlinson, who presented the revisions, told the committee the change from "school readiness" to "Early Start CT" reflects a statewide name change and should be reflected in policy so staff and delegated personnel in those programs are explicitly included in…