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Highlands County School Board adopts grouped policy revisions, approves personnel, salary changes and athletic memberships
Summary
The Highlands County School Board approved revisions to grouped policies (5a–5jj), accepted the superintendent's personnel recommendations, adopted a revised 2025–26 salary schedule, approved expulsions for academy placements, and authorized Lake Placid and Avon Park high schools to join the Sunshine State Athletic Association for football. Actions were approved as presented.
The Highlands County School Board on Jan. 29 adopted bundled revisions to multiple board policies and approved a slate of routine personnel and program items.
Board Attorney Mrs. Nash summarized the rulemaking timeline for the policy package—notice of rule development published Oct. 1; a workshop Nov. 11; a meeting Dec. 9; and notice of rulemaking on Dec. 19, 2025—before asking the board to consider adoption of revisions grouped as items 5a through 5jj. A motion to adopt the revisions was moved and…
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