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Highlands workshop reviews academy code changes, 90% attendance threshold and due-process timing
Summary
Administrators reviewed proposed code-of-conduct edits for the Highlands academy that formalize a 90% attendance threshold for early-release eligibility, a nine-week review cycle, procedures to expedite hearings, and new food-and-drink safety language; officials asked for a follow-up workshop to refine wording.
Speaker 1, a staff member, opened a workshop to review minor but consequential edits to the Highlands academy code of conduct, emphasizing a clarified student-parent agreement that would be signed at registration and a policy of reviewing student progress every nine weeks. "This agreement outlines expectations of students enrolled at academy. Expectations are reviewed with the student every 9 weeks," Speaker 1 said.
Why it matters: The changes would govern when students assigned to the academy are eligible for early release back to their home school and how administrators and the board measure attendance, discipline and academic progress. Speaker 6 warned the panel to preserve students' procedural protections: "The students themselves have due process rights. They…
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