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Subcommittee forwards amended JKAA restraint policy after DESE request
Summary
The Policy & Curriculum Subcommittee voted 3–0 to send a revision of policy JKAA (physical restraint of students) to the full school committee after DESE asked the district to remove wording about medication and mechanical restraint that DESE said was inconsistent with state guidance.
The Policy and Curriculum Subcommittee voted unanimously to forward an amended version of policy JKAA — governing physical restraint of students — to the full North Attleborough School Committee following a state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) review.
Speaker 4 told the subcommittee that DESE’s integrated monitoring review identified a sentence in the district policy stating “the use of medication or mechanical restraint is prohibited unless explicitly authorized by a physician and approved in writing by the parent or…
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