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Board schedules committee-of-the-whole to review student handbook comments Sept. 28
Summary
The board agreed to hold a public committee-of-the-whole meeting focused on the board's written handbook feedback (not a wholesale rewrite). Members selected a tentative date (Sept. 28) and asked administration to collate and respond to comments before the session.
After several members urged a focused review of substantive comments to the student handbook, the board agreed to convene a committee-of-the-whole public meeting to discuss written feedback — concentrated specifically on items raised by board members rather than a page-by-page rewrite.
Chair and several members proposed late-September meeting dates to allow administration time to assemble responses to Bill's posted comments. One member argued for urgency on specific phrasing that could have disciplinary consequences (examples included the wording for "pushing" and the definition of "gang"), while others recommended limiting the meeting to discussing the feedback rather than drafting final policy language on the spot. The board tentatively set a committee-of-the-whole meeting for Sept. 28, to begin at 6 p.m. and to focus on the submitted feedback so the administrative team can prepare suggested edits in advance.
