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Board approves multiple handbook updates across grade levels
Summary
The board approved updates to classified, certified, administrator, elementary, middle and high‑school handbooks covering leave language, grading cadence, electronic‑device rules, attendance times, e‑bike restrictions and other technical corrections.
District administrators presented a package of handbook revisions June 15 that the board approved by voice vote. Revisions spanned classified and certified handbooks, administrator and building handbooks, and elementary, middle and high‑school guides.
Assistant Superintendent (as recorded) described changes that include clearer bereavement and unpaid‑leave language, adding the district’s absence‑reporting system (Red Rover) into handbook protocols, requiring teachers to update grades at two‑week intervals, and restating seniority as a factor in teacher transfers. The elementary handbook clarified arrival and breakfast times (breakfast doors open at 7:50 a.m.), the middle‑school handbook added a prohibition on e‑bikes on campus and adjusted NJHS activity requirements, and the high‑school handbook added rules for student walkouts and tightened privacy/recording language.
Administrators said some updates reflect recent state guidance (for example, forthcoming state cell‑phone rules) and that additional language on electronic devices will return at the July meeting to align with that guidance. Board members voted to approve the handbooks during the meeting; no controversial votes were recorded.
