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Volusia County School Board reviews policy updates; agrees to change marketing title and tighten confidentiality language
Summary
The board reviewed multiple updated policies — including Physical Education, School Advisory Council, Promotion/Public Relations (to be retitled), personnel confidentiality, and a new reimaging policy — and agreed on editorial changes to be inserted for the evening's advertisement packet. Key language will reference "applicable state and federal law" for confidentiality; final adoption will follow advertisement and procedures development.
The Volusia County School Board discussed a package of policy updates and reached agreement on several editorial changes to be included in the documents the board will advertise for formal consideration.
The meeting opened with Superintendent Dr. Carmen Balgobin and board attorney Gilbert Evans presenting three policies with minor edits and one new policy. Evans told the board the instructional policy on physical education (Policy 305) was updated to replace references to the old "Sunshine State Standards" with the "Next Generation Sunshine State Standards" and to update a statutory citation in the redline. The board noted Policy 305 was last revised in 2009 and will return in the advertisement packet for formal action.
Board members discussed the School Advisory Council policy (Policy 809), previously last reviewed in 2008, and accepted minor grammatical edits and a change replacing the old standards reference with the Florida-Best standards. Several…
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