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Board supports staff plan to overhaul District 11 policy manual; staff to draft phased rewrite and public process

Board of Education, District 11 (work session) · April 15, 2026
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Summary

Board members directed staff to draft a phased plan for a comprehensive review and streamlining of the district policy manual (400+ documents). Staff proposed grouping policies, prioritizing statutory requirements, and scheduling summer/fall work sessions with public input and legal review.

A board motion to direct staff to draft a comprehensive plan to review, streamline and — where appropriate — repeal or recast district policies won general support in the work session.

Board members said the existing manual contains many operational and outdated rules that are better handled by administration; staff responded with a spreadsheet analysis that classified policies by statutory requirement, suggested repeals and…

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