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Dist. U-46 policy updates ratified via board vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 voted 6-0, board member Veronica Noland was absent, to approve updates to 20 policies at its meeting on Monday, Feb. 5.
  The updates were presented and approved that same evening. The updates, however, were not publicly available.
  Trisha Olson, chief legal officer, said the updates were for “legal citations, legal references and information that is otherwise non-substantive in nature.”
  Included was one policy from Section 2 regarding the Board of Education and one from Section 3 regarding general school administration: 2:120 (board member development) and 3:50 (administrative personnel other than the superintendent).
  Two from Section 4 regarding operational services: 4:90 (student activity funds and fiduciary funds) and 4:170 (safety).
  Six from Section 5 regarding personnel: 5:50 (drug- and alcohol-free workplace; e-cigarette, tobacco, and cannabis prohibition), 5:90 (abused and neglected child reporting), 5:120 (employee ethics; code of professional conduct; and conflict of interest), 5:150 (personnel records), 5:190 (teacher qualifications) and 5:200 (terms and conditions of employment and dismissal).
  Six from Section 6 concerning instruction: 6:15 (school accountability), 6:20 (school year calendar and day), 6:30 (organization of instruction), 6:65 (student social and emotional development), 6:270 (guidance and counseling program) and 6:280 (grading and promotion).
  Four from Section 7 concerning students: 7:50 (school admissions and student transfers to and from non-district schools), 7:250 (student support services), 7:285 (anaphylaxis prevention, response, and management program) and 7:345 (use of educational technologies; student data privacy and security).
  Additionally, the board voted 6-0 to approve of its board agreements which remain the same since 2021.
  “A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of January, the board had its annual self-evaluation meeting,” said Sue Kerr, the board’s president. “We go over a number of things. One thing is we review our board agreement. So, we did not make any changes to the board agreements. The attachment here is what we have been going by for a while.”