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Committee approves several 8000-series policies and adopts record-retention schedules

Board of School Directors · March 17, 2026
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Summary

The committee approved multiple policies in Section 8000 (including volunteers and lactating-employee accommodations), adopted updated records-retention schedules, and advanced several other policies to the full board; three policies were held for further committee work.

What happened: The legislation, rules and policies committee advanced a packet of operational policies and took separate votes on multiple items. Key actions included approving policy 8120 (volunteers), approving policy 8700 (lactating employees), approving policy 5451.01 (Wisconsin academic excellence scholarship), adopting policy 5411 (third-grade promotion and retention), approving policy 9141 (school engagement councils), approving policy 9150 (school visitors), approving policy 9501 (charter schools), and adopting revisions to administrative policy 9.13 (records retention) including the Wisconsin Public Records Board schedules. The committee also approved the balance of the Section 8000 policies as presented.

Held for further work:…

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