Two dozen policies scrapped at once, then the whole manual rewritten

What happened

On February 25, 2026 the board adopted three new policies and abolished twenty-four others in the same motion. Among them were a school safety policy and a special education policy together with all thirteen of its regulations, which covered such things as implementing an individualised education programme, suspension of a student with a disability, student records, related services, assessment and the length of the school day, plus a regulation on free and reduced-price meals and two on evaluating administrators. Seven months later, on September 23, 2026, the board adopted a complete new codification of its bylaws, policies and administrative regulations, rescinding all inconsistent prior policies; the accompanying list runs to about fifty policies and twenty-three regulations and includes assignment of students to schools, dyslexia screening, dating violence, enrolment, student records, care of injured and ill students, transportation, district-provided technology, acceptable use of computer networks, free and appropriate public education, defibrillators and diabetes care.

Why it matters to families

Policies are the written rules a parent can hold a district to, and for part of 2026 a large block of special education and school safety rules was off the books before the replacement manual was adopted. The recodification is the right end point, but it happened in a single vote in September rather than policy by policy, so a family that relied on a particular regulation would have to read the new manual to find out what replaced it. The board was doing this while revising its own policy on employing a superintendent and its nepotism and staff harassment policies, and while its president had disclosed being an immediate relative of a district employee and given up five committee seats on the solicitor's advice.

The evidence

The February 25, 2026 policy reading list and minutes record the adoption of three policies and the abolition of twenty-four policies and regulations, including policy 7430 and its regulation on school safety, policy 2461 and regulations 2461 through 2461.12 on special education and receiving schools, regulation 8540 on free and reduced meals and regulations 3223.1 and 3223.2 on evaluating administrators. The September 23, 2026 agenda adopts the bylaws, policies and administrative regulations of the board and rescinds all inconsistent prior policies, and the accompanying policy and regulation report lists the student-facing items named here. The January 14, 2026 agenda records the president's disclosure and the rescinding of his committee appointments.

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