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Board approves multiple policy readings and endorses state resolutions

Tipton County School Board · February 13, 2026

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Summary

The Tipton County School Board approved several policy second readings and a package of state-targeted resolutions — including requests on capital projects trust eligibility, special-education preschool funding within the TISA formula, and drone-recording limits — and voted to insert a prior board resolution into the high-school registration handbook.

At its February meeting the Tipton County School Board approved a set of policy updates and unanimously endorsed a package of resolutions intended for state lawmakers.

The board voted to approve policy section 5.5 through 5.803 on second reading and then approved three additional policies on second reading: policy 1.901 (student applications), policy 2.804 (expenses and reimbursements) and policy 5.402 (hepatitis B/HBV policy). Speaker 2 led the motions; all were carried by voice vote with no recorded roll-call tally in the transcript.

Speaker 6 presented a grouped set of resolutions the board recommended to support at the state level: establishing a capital-projects trust for Tennessee school districts, expanding the Tennessee public higher-education fee discount program to all public-school employees, requesting funding adjustments to cover special-education preschool students in the TISA formula, criminalizing drone recordings of school property without permission, clarifying recent public chapters on student searches and parental notification, and requesting funding for adequate school-nurse staffing. The board moved to approve the package as a group and the motion carried by voice vote.

Separately, Speaker 2 moved to include a previously passed resolution on evolution in the high-school registration handbook so that parents seeing course listings also see the board’s resolution; that motion was seconded and passed.

The approvals were routine in form but represent the board’s formal support for a slate of state-level requests and internal policy updates. No detailed funding provisions or implementation timelines for the resolutions were specified in the meeting transcript.