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Sweet Home board asks superintendent to clarify revised student drug‑testing policy after first reading
Summary
At first reading the board examined language that could expand testing for extracurricular participants; members raised medical‑exemption and selection concerns and voted to direct the superintendent to get clarifying language from OSBA before a next reading.
At a March 9 meeting of the Sweet Home SD 55 school board, trustees took up a first reading of an updated student drug‑testing policy for extracurricular activity participants and voted to have the superintendent seek clarification on the draft language.
The policy draft — identified in the packet as JFCIA and accompanying administrative rules — includes language that a board member read as saying, in part, “mandatory drug testing will be required of all students” with later sections describing random testing thereafter. Several trustees said the phrasing created uncertainty about whether every…
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