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Board reviews handbook updates, curriculum approvals and specialized placement contracts
Summary
Administrators presented consolidated K–12 handbook updates—attendance clarifications, AI use added to discipline matrix, dress-code clarifications, and caffeine/energy‑supplement rules—and recommended curriculum approvals including the written psychology elective and several vendor contracts for specialized services.
District administrators presented comprehensive updates to elementary, middle and high school handbooks to align district policy with state law and current practice. Changes highlighted to the board included attendance clarifications (reflecting Act 47 of 2025 on transfers to cyber charter schools), moving class‑type infractions to a level‑two discipline category, and adding the unauthorized use of AI programs to the level‑two infraction list alongside cheating and plagiarism.
The high school handbook now explicitly includes examples of inappropriate tops and bottoms and expands electronic device language to cover smart watches and smart glasses. Administrators also added caffeinated beverages and energy supplements (including pouches) to the list of prohibited substances during school hours.
Curriculum items presented for approval included a newly written high school psychology elective (previously offered but not formally documented) authored by Mr. Whitman and a Modern Global Conflicts elective that has been written but may or may not run in the fall depending on enrollment. Administrators noted ongoing efforts to ensure scheduling and staffing align with the new state requirement that all students take a personal finance/financial literacy course.
The board also reviewed and moved forward with several specialized services contracts for the 2026–2027 year: a New Story New Holland campus contract, a LinkedIn Literacy (Wilson Orton‑Gillingham) contract with Melissa Reeber to provide reading instruction for three students, and pre‑purchase of four River Rock seats for out‑of‑district placements. The record shows clarifying questions about whether the River Rock seats were additional to previously approved slots; administration answered that the pre‑purchase would total four seats in this action.
