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School-board workshop reviews policy redlines; procurement threshold increase draws pushback
Summary
Board members reviewed a slate of policy revisions — including mandated wording changes from recent legislation, EpiPen/health-services staffing language, and a contested proposal to raise procurement approval thresholds; staff said higher thresholds would reduce agenda items but some trustees urged a more modest adjustment.
The board reviewed dozens of proposed policy updates and discussed several items at length, including a statutory-driven change to replace the phrase "professional development" with "professional learning," health-services language around EpiPen training and a proposed increase in procurement approval thresholds.
Several trustees questioned the administrative burden and cost of changing policy wording district-wide when the legislature required a single vocabulary change; one board member asked whether language such as "may" should remain to preserve flexibility…
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