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Board reviews dozens of VSBA policy updates including weapons, FMLA and parental-rights revisions
Summary
Board staff highlighted multiple Virginia School Boards Association policy revisions of note, including rewritten FMLA language, clarified weapons-on-property wording, consolidation of support-staff policies, updated gang-related definitions, and expanded parental-rights language for the board to review ahead of action.
Miss Rice briefed the Westmoreland County School Board on a package of VSBA policy updates and highlighted several that she recommended the board review more carefully before taking action.
Rice said the staff-weapons policy wording was changed to clarify that legal authority — not the superintendent — permits possession of a firearm on school property, and that…
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