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North Miami board adopts updated handbooks and student policies including social media and attendance rules
Summary
The board approved 2024–25 elementary and middle/high school handbooks with revisions (attendance, electronic device guidance, bus procedures, nut‑free policy), and adopted policies on legal expense reporting, student attendance, habitual truancy, social media use, and religious release time.
The North Miami Board of School Trustees approved revised handbooks for the 2024–25 school year and adopted several student-related policies at its July 16 meeting.
Trustees voted to approve the 2024–25 Elementary Handbook and the 2024–25 Middle/High School Handbook. Updates listed in the minutes include revised mission and vision statements, virtual learning guidance, late‑work and grading/reporting practices, attendance and habitual truancy procedures, a nut‑free school policy, medication-on-buses guidance, transportation and bus discipline procedures, changes to electronic device and social media guidance for students, and the removal of student employment/work-permit oversight by the schools.
The board also completed second readings and adopted policy 1800 (Legal Expenses Reporting), policy 4320 (Student Attendance), policy 4322 (Habitual Truant), policy 4350 (Social Media Use by Students) and policy 5541 (Student Religious Release Time). Each policy adoption was recorded as carried 5-0 in the minutes.
Minutes did not provide fuller text of each policy change; the board’s action implements the handbook revisions and the listed policy adoptions for the coming school year. The board reiterated the next regular meeting is Tuesday, Aug. 20.
