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Committee amends animal-in-schools policy to require principal review and rabies verification

Wachusett Regional School District Committee · October 6, 2025
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Summary

The committee split and amended the district's animal-in-schools policy, adding language that animals cannot be brought into schools without principal (or designee) permission and an appropriate review of rabies vaccination; members discussed how that interacts with service-animal protections.

The Wachusett Regional School Committee voted to amend policy 6637 (animals in schools) to add a requirement that "no animal shall be brought to school without prior permission from the building principal or designee and appropriate review of the rabies vaccination."

Member Klein raised that proof-of-rabies language was previously placed in a footnote and could be overlooked; she…

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