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Trustees debate revisions to suspension policies that advocates say weaken protections for students with disabilities
Summary
Board members and community advocates told trustees that proposed edits to policies 73-13 and 73-15 remove trauma-informed, equity-centered language and could normalize exclusionary discipline; the draft policies will return to the advisory committee for revision and further board review.
At the Jan. 14 Schenectady City School District board meeting trustees reviewed proposed revisions to three discipline-related policies, including policy 73-13 (student suspension) and 73-15 (students presumed to have a disability for discipline purposes). Community speakers and several trustees warned that the draft language weakens previously adopted trauma-informed and equity-centered protections.
"The proposed policy changes do the opposite" of strengthening protections, board member Jamaica said,…
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