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Ellington board questions removal of protected‑class wording in policy updates; legal counsel to be consulted
Summary
Board members raised concerns during a first read of updated policies after staff and counsel stripped certain protected‑class language; the policy committee said edits reflect recent federal legal changes and recommended inviting district counsel Shipman & Goodwin to explain the rationale before a second reading.
At its Dec. 18 meeting, the Ellington Board of Education debated wording changes in a batch of policy updates after board members noticed that language listing protected classes (examples included in the packet: sexual orientation, gender identity and pregnancy) had been struck in several places.
"There was a lot of instances of removal of protected‑class language... I'm just looking…
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