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Board adopts policy changes: graduation speaker rule and consent for prayer/reading; reviews broader TASB policy update
Summary
Trustees approved a revision to allow the student body president to speak at graduation and adopted changes to require signed parental consent for students and signed employee consent before participating in a period of prayer or reading of the Bible or another religious text; the board also reviewed TASB Local Policy Update 127 covering multiple personnel and ethics policies.
The Magnolia ISD Board of Trustees on July 13 approved several policy changes and reviewed a larger policy update packet drawn from TASB Local Policy Update 127.
Among the approved local policy changes, trustees amended FNA to allow the student body president to be among those authorized to speak at graduation. The board also approved revisions to FNA and DGA that require written parental consent for students and a signed consent from employees before participating in a campus period of prayer or the reading of the Bible or another religious text. The proposed consent forms in the packet include an acknowledgement that participation is voluntary and, as drafted, an express waiver referenced in the revision language.
Dr. Ben King reviewed the broader TASB Update 127 materials with the board; the packet includes sample language and legal references for BJCF (superintendent nonrenewal), CAA (financial ethics and fraud reporting), DC (employment practices), DH (employee standards of conduct), DP series (personnel positions), EHBB (gifted and talented), and FFF (student safety). The board approved the specific FNA/DGA and graduation-speaker revisions (motions recorded as No. 6209 and No. 6210). The minutes record votes but do not contain verbatim discussion quotes from trustees or staff in the public minutes.
