December 1, 2022 at 6:45 PM - Board of Education Policy Committee Meeting

Rationale:  This policy is being reviewed as part of the  policy review plan.   Currently, our main focus is on the 2000 series.  There are only minor suggested changes.   

2210 - Administrative Leeway in Absence of Board Policy

Rationale:  This policy was recommended by Shipman and Goodwin.   It sets the legal parameters for a parent's ability to request a curriculum exemption.  The law allows for five (5) areas in which they can apply for curriculum exemptions and a process to do so.  

1.  Dissection;

2. Family life education;

3. HIV/AIDS; or

4. Sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention program; or

5. Firearms safety programs (ROTC Only)

Curricular Exemptions

Rationale:  This policy is being reviewed as part of the policy review plan.   Currently, our main focus is on the 2000 series.  There are only minor suggested changes.   


2210 - Administrative Discretion in Absence of BOE Policy

Rationale:  This policy is being reviewed as part of a cycle.  Currently we are focused on reviewing of all policies in the 2000 series.   There are no suggested changes to this policy.  

2220 - Representative and Deliberate Groups -

Rationale:  2222 - Administrative Council - No changes suggested.

Rationale: 

2231 - Policy and Regulation Systems - Minor edits suggested.   

Rationale:  This policy is being reviewed as part of a comprehensive policy review of the 2000 series.   The policy is comprehensive in nature and we do not have any suggested changes.  

2300 - Role of Board of Education and Superintendent - No changes suggested.  

Rationale:  Per legislation, this policy and regulations need to be updated.  
Attendance and Truancy Policy.  The update to the policy included legal references.  There were more revisions to the regulations, to include the addition of Mental Health Days and the definition of truancy.  

Policy 5113 - Student Attendance and Truancy

Regulation 5113 - Student Attendance and Truancy

Rationale: 

There was legislation passed in the last session requiring BOE to update their administration of medication policy to address the use of Narcan in schools.  Our administrative team and nurses have been trained twice on the administration of Narcan (in 2018 and 2022).  

We updated it based on a model policy from Shipman and Goodwin.  The new language mirrors the use of EpiPen in schools. The new policy was reviewed by our Health Supervisor and our District medical advisor, Dr. Alon.  

We are required to annually provide parents with the opportunity to refuse the administration of EpiPen or Narcan.  


Policy 5141.21 - Administration of Student Medications in the Schools

Rationale:  This is a NEW policy.  We are proposing using Shipman's model policy.  This is specifically a Personnel Policy.  This is in response to recent legislation and an incident in another district.  There is also a requirement in this legislation to provide additional professional development developed by the Department of Children and Families.  

Series 4000 - Reports of Suspected Abuse or Neglect of Children or Reports of Sexual Assault of Students By School Employees