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MSBA counsel urges Lakeville board to prioritize missing mandatory policies, triage review, and use staff for technical edits
Summary
MSBA general counsel Terry Morrow told the Lakeville Area Schools board to adopt missing mandatory policies first, then address required reviews and legal-requirement policies; he urged a triage approach, a three-year review cycle, and delegating technical edits to staff to speed compliance while preserving board oversight on substantive changes.
Terry Morrow, general counsel for the Minnesota School Boards Association, spent the bulk of a Lakeville Area Schools work session on April 14 walking the board through a policy-audit triage plan and recommending practical steps to bring the district into compliance.
Morrow explained MSBA's model-policy program — which produces standardized policy language for districts — and described three categories used in his audit: mandatory policies that largely quote federal or state law (blue); legal-requirement policies that document statutory obligations but are discretionary to adopt (green); and recommended policies that reflect best practice (white). He said the first priority is to adopt any missing mandatory policies and then to update mandatory policies that…
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