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Board advances multiple policy updates tied to PA code changes, including virtual‑attendance rules and cyberbullying definitions
Summary
The board moved several policies forward for first reading—home education, extracurricular participation for home‑educated students, attendance (including virtual attendance/wellness checks), dress and grooming (protective‑hairstyle protections), tobacco/vaping updates, and bullying/cyberbullying revisions addressing AI language.
The Policy & Procedure committee presented a slate of policy revisions prompted by changes in Pennsylvania code, and the board approved forwarding the items for first reading.
Committee staff highlighted that policy updates include a new virtual attendance and wellness‑check requirement "to have real time physical contact with students at least once a week" for students not in brick‑and‑mortar settings, and that bullying and cyberbullying policy 249 was expanded to include definitions related to AI and to clarify reporting and parent‑notification procedures. "This essentially is requiring school districts to have the same expectation as our cyber charters do, to have real time physical contact with students at least once a week," a committee presenter said during discussion.
Other updates add nondiscrimination protections for protective hairstyles and revise tobacco and vaping language to explicitly cover vaping products. The board also moved several employment‑leave and substance‑abuse policies forward for second reading.
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