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Board fast-tracks six policy updates to comply with new state statutes
Summary
General counsel outlined six policy changes the district must adopt to conform with recent state statute amendments — including changes to school nutrition meal selection, excused religious-instruction absences, suicide/crisis lifeline postings, diabetes parent notices, and creation of a community media advisory committee — and the board voted to fast-track them for the coming academic year.
General counsel (speaker 10) told the board that recent budget legislation included statutory amendments requiring multiple updates to district policies. The proposed revisions included removing alternate-meal language in the operation of school nutrition services, adding an excused-absence provision for religious instruction up to four hours weekly, requiring annual suicide and crisis lifeline postings, adding diabetes information to mandatory parent notices, and creating a community media advisory committee and an appeal mechanism that would allow the board to be the final decision-maker on instructional materials challenges.
Staff asked the board to suspend procedural requirements (policy 1-14) to fast-track the six edits so they could be implemented before the school year begins. With no further questions, the board agreed to fast-track the policies and the chair announced, "The ayes have it."
