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U-46 student conduct code changes ratified by board

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved, changes to the Student Code of Conduct at its meeting on Monday, June 26.
  The changes largely include correction to grammatical errors, updated internet links and updates to dates and contact information, according to a memo from David Bell, coordinator of culture and climate.
  “The changes you see are mostly in language and in revising of definitions and revising of behavior event titles,” Bell said. “And the primary reason for that was, my work this year was focused a lot on trying to increase consistency in how the behaviors are applied and increase consistency on how they’re being documented.”
  Bell added: “A lot of this work that I did with the safety council… was to try to revise the language so that it reduced the redundancy and the overlap that we saw in some of these behaviors. And the primary goal was to try to fix the thermometer so we knew what the temperature was in the building. We don’t know what the temperature is if the data’s coming in different places and different words are being used. So, a lot of those revisions, almost all of them are around trying to make sure that the thermometer is better equipped and can give us a better idea of what is going on in the schools.”
  Additionally, the board voted 7-0 to approve both a preschool/kindergarten curriculum and a Japanese and Mandarin Chinese world language curriculum expansion as well as the board meeting schedule for the 2024-2025 school year.
  The preschool/kindergarten curriculum has an estimated cost of $910,000 for “hands-on materials and books aligned to each unit should be purchased” with the curriculum creating “new thematic, integrated units for preschool and updated units in the integrated curriculum for kindergarten,” the proposal states.
  The world language curriculum expansion has an estimated cost of $212,030 for resources from Education Perfect and Cheng & Tsui.  
  The 2024-2025 board meeting schedule follows past schedules with 22 regular board meeting dates and 11 optional meeting dates, all Mondays.