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Board reviews comprehensive discipline and safety policy; debates 'program' vs 'plan' and data collection
Summary
Trustees reviewed draft policy 5030, which compiles statutory requirements for school disciplinary and safety programming; debate centered on whether to retain the statute's word "program" or substitute "plan," frequency of required reviews, and whether to add direction for mental-health data collection.
Miss Dillard presented draft policy 5030 as a large, statute-driven policy consolidating state requirements and cross-references to existing district policies (10-55 on conflict resolution and 720.2 on safety program).
Mister Dorn and other trustees questioned the use of the word "program," preferring the term "plan" to avoid implying a single prescriptive program at every school. Miss Dillard and trustees pointed out that "program" mirrors…
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