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USDB board approves package of policies, tightens language-access and student-device rules
Summary
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind board approved a slate of policies and bylaws on second and final reading, including policy 4002, advisory council bylaws, language-access updates (adding an explicit interpreter request form URL), BYOD, and student-device/acceptable-use policies; a handful of targeted wording amendments were adopted.
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind board on second and final readings approved a package of policy changes and bylaws Friday, adopting policy 4002 and a series of operational policies after targeted edits to clarify access and administrative procedures.
Board members voted 14 in favor with one abstention to approve policy 4002 after staff agreed to correct contextual grammar issues raised by Member Boggess. The board also approved the USDB advisory council bylaws as amended to reference board policy 4002 for appointments.
Members moved a specific amendment to the draft language-access policy to replace an ambiguous linked word with an explicit reference to the ‘USDB interpreter request form’ and to add a stable URL location for printed copies; the amendment passed unanimously and the policy was approved as amended. Member Boggess had pressed…
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