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Policy panel backs retitling homeless-student rule, recommends broader interpreter services
Summary
The Niskayuna policy committee recommended updating the homeless-student policy title to “education of students in temporary housing,” and urged broadening an interpreter-services policy to cover all language supports across written and oral communications.
The Niskayuna policy committee reviewed a set of student-support policies on Jan. 6 and recommended renaming policy 71-31 from “homeless children and youth” to “education of students in temporary housing,” saying the updated Erie 1 language better reflects current nomenclature and McKinney-Vento terminology. Tim, who led the…
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