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TASBY representatives tell College Station ISD trustees DOI plan language will be moved from local policy to posted plans
Summary
TASBY presenters recommended streamlining College Station ISD's policy manual by pointing local policy to each district's posted District of Innovation (DOI) plan, preserving specific local policy language only where legally required (for example, complaint timelines affected by SB 12).
At a board workshop, TASBY representatives told College Station ISD trustees they are changing how districts reflect DOI (District of Innovation) exemptions in local policy: rather than repeating DOI language throughout the policy manual, the manual will note when a legal framework is impacted and direct readers to the district's posted DOI plan.
Amy Cadlichek of TASBY, who presented the revisions, said the change is meant to reduce redundant policy text and avoid creating local procedures that duplicate an approved DOI plan. "Your DOI plan is your local policy about whatever exemption you are choosing to make," Cadlichek said, adding that the DOI plan must remain posted on the district and TEA websites for public access.
Cadlichek and a TASBY colleague said most substantive legal requirements will remain in the legal framework and that local policy will only retain provisions where the district must specify local procedures — the example given repeatedly was complaint and grievance timelines, which some districts had chosen to address locally after changes under Senate Bill 12.
Board members asked whether the legal-policy notes themselves were changing; Cadlichek replied the notes are being updated but that the overall approach is to rely on the DOI plan for district-specific exemptions and to reserve local-policy text for procedural items stakeholders need to follow. "These three complaint policies are not substantively changing," she said, "we're putting your policies back to how they were prior to your DOI plan and doing stylistic cleanup."
Trustees were told proposed policy deletions and edits would come to the board for their normal policy-vote cycle, with the workshop serving as a first briefing before the first reading at a future meeting.
The board did not vote on policy changes during the workshop; staff said formal votes on revised policies will be scheduled for a subsequent board meeting.
