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Trustees revise suicide‑prevention, health and other policies; narrow driver’s‑ed, ethnic‑studies changes deferred
Summary
Board reviewed a multi-page policy packet, directed staff to add explicit parent-notification language in suicide-prevention and comprehensive health ARs, set a 14‑day opt‑out notice standard for certain sex‑ed topics, and asked staff to return with refined driver’s‑ed and course‑of‑study language in December.
Trustees spent substantial time reviewing a large package of revised board policies and administrative regulations on Nov. 18, including suicide prevention procedures, comprehensive health and HIV-prevention instruction (and opt-out rules), courses of study, discipline procedures and related administrative regulations.
Key outcomes reached during the line-by-line review: - Suicide prevention (AR 5141.52): trustees directed staff to add parents to the list of people students are encouraged to notify and to make clear that the designated reporter who conducts a risk assessment "shall implement district intervention protocols as appropriate…
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