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Board directs staff to link student code of conduct to school handbooks
Summary
Trustees agreed to change policy wording so the board policy and each school's student handbook reference one another, and asked staff to add a first-line sentence clarifying that the handbook contains detailed procedures including appeals and discipline steps.
Trustees spent much of the study session on policy 5500, the student code of conduct, debating whether the board policy should include step-by-step due-process language or instead point readers to each school's student handbook for the procedural detail.
A staff member noted the draft policy currently devotes considerable attention to academic honesty and "the use of AI," which prompted trustees to ask for a short, clear first-line statement in the policy: that the handbook contains the detailed code of conduct and appeals steps. Trustees directed staff to replace ambiguous references with a consistent 'student code of conduct / student handbook' phrasing and to make corresponding edits across administrative guidelines and handbook pages so families can find discipline and appeal procedures easily.
