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Board pauses changes to suspension policy, reviews homeless-education wording after state monitoring
Summary
The board’s policy advisory committee recommended pausing proposed edits to student-suspension policy (Policy 7313) to align with a broader code-of-conduct stakeholder review and suggested minor wording updates to education-of-homeless and Title I funding policies following a New York State coordinated monitoring review.
The Schenectady City School District Policy Advisory Committee reported to the board on May 6 that it will hold off on adopting changes to Board Policy 7313 (student suspension) until that work can be synchronized with a larger code-of-character, conduct and student-support stakeholder process.
At the April 21 advisory meeting, committee members said combining the suspension-policy feedback with the code-of-conduct stakeholder process would better inform any substantive edits. "We present as an option to you all to pause on feedback for the policy specific hold as is in June when the code of character, conduct, and student support process begins," a policy committee member said during the meeting.
The committee also discussed suggested language adjustments to the district’s education-of-homeless and Title I program funding policies after a coordinated monitoring review by the New York State Education Department cited wording changes. The committee recommended gathering additional feedback and treating the proposals as first-read items rather than adopting changes immediately while the state review continues.
Board members suggested specific wording changes — for example, replacing the term "homeless" with "temporarily housed" in some places — and asked the committee to share examples from other districts. The committee said it will circulate materials to board members for comment and reconvene with stakeholder input before returning recommendations to the full board.
