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Committee tightens animal-policy language, assigns staff responsibility for classroom animals
Summary
The committee revised service-animal and animals-in-schools policies (6163.32 and 5120-series), preferring the term 'school official' over 'board personnel,' restoring wording choices, standardizing handler/guardian language, and recommending that the staff member who brings an animal be responsible for its care and sanitation; the committee recommended waiving a second read and forwarding changes to the board.
The committee reviewed revisions to the district’s service-animal policy and its animals-in-schools policy, including separating regulation from policy. The chair and committee members proposed replacing repeated references to "board personnel" with "school official" for consistency across…
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