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Murfreesboro school board adds Juneteenth to paid holidays, adopts multiple policy updates
Summary
At its July 28 meeting the Murfreesboro City Schools board amended vacation policy to add Juneteenth as a paid holiday for 12‑month employees and approved several policy revisions—covering fiscal controls, promotion pathways, and teacher separation practices—largely to align district rules with recent state law changes.
The Murfreesboro City Schools Board on July 28 voted to amend board policy 5.310 to add Juneteenth as a paid holiday for 12‑month employees and approved a package of policy changes tied to recent state legislation.
Board discussion focused first on vacation and holiday language. Miss Price moved to amend policy 5.310 to add Juneteenth for 12‑month employees; the motion was seconded and carried by voice vote. Staff described the broader revisions as an effort to standardize vacation accrual, limit vacation payout to a maximum of 30 days on separation, and authorize the director of schools to designate certain central office work days as nonworking days. “If the board wanted to put Juneteenth as a paid holiday, then we would just add that to the policy for 2nd reading,” staff said when explaining the mechanics; the board approved the amended policy on first reading.
Separately, the board approved revisions to board policy 2.100 (fiscal management goals) to reflect recommendations for annual internal control reviews and to clarify where internal control manuals and administrative directives reside. The board also approved changes to policy 4.6031 clarifying third‑grade promotion pathways tied to the Tennessee universal reading screener and approved combined revisions to policies 5.200 and 5.201 addressing separation practices for tenured and non‑tenured teachers. Those separation policy changes respond to public chapter 898 and add interim options—temporary reassignment, administrative leave with pay, or removal from the school setting—so the district does not have to rely immediately on suspension without pay during investigations.
Board members asked procedural questions about implementation and asked staff to bring the amended holiday language back for a subsequent reading so it can be codified. The actions on the agenda were approved by voice vote; no roll‑call tallies were recorded in the meeting transcript. The board indicated these policy updates were intended to align district rules with newly passed state statutes while retaining administrative safeguards and clarity for staff.
