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<blockquote data-quote="PollyParent" data-source="post: 86542" data-attributes="member: 3822"><p>Most recent legislation or legal opinions ALWAYS supercede School District policies. School Districts must operate in a lawful manner in accordance with state and federal laws.</p><p></p><p>It's just that if staff isn't keeping on top of updating the policies (we get formal update notices three times a year from our state School Board Association), then school district staff is not aware that the laws have changed and that district practice must change.</p><p></p><p>If the sd doesn't update, and it refers back to an obsolete policy in attempting to support sd practice ("We were just following our policies!") the sd can land in more and more hot water for carrying on obsolete practices without regard to the law. </p><p></p><p>Which is another reason for <em>parents to really know their laws</em>. Just because the District is DOING it doesn't necessarily mean that they are allowed to.</p><p></p><p>(Yes, there were a variety of discipline and behavior policies referring to Special Education students which had not been updated for more than a decade. Scary. We also had an "attendance boundaries by home address" policy which did not include an entire school. The school was built in 1987. Obviously district practice had been placing those children into schools, and there was documentation in the District Office relative to that practice, but no one had bothered to update the policy, or to apparently read it and discover how very out of compliance we were. And we have gone through four State Compliance reviews since that school was built. But that policy never showed up on their random audits.)</p><p></p><p>PollyParent</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PollyParent, post: 86542, member: 3822"] Most recent legislation or legal opinions ALWAYS supercede School District policies. School Districts must operate in a lawful manner in accordance with state and federal laws. It's just that if staff isn't keeping on top of updating the policies (we get formal update notices three times a year from our state School Board Association), then school district staff is not aware that the laws have changed and that district practice must change. If the sd doesn't update, and it refers back to an obsolete policy in attempting to support sd practice ("We were just following our policies!") the sd can land in more and more hot water for carrying on obsolete practices without regard to the law. Which is another reason for [i]parents to really know their laws[/i]. Just because the District is DOING it doesn't necessarily mean that they are allowed to. (Yes, there were a variety of discipline and behavior policies referring to Special Education students which had not been updated for more than a decade. Scary. We also had an "attendance boundaries by home address" policy which did not include an entire school. The school was built in 1987. Obviously district practice had been placing those children into schools, and there was documentation in the District Office relative to that practice, but no one had bothered to update the policy, or to apparently read it and discover how very out of compliance we were. And we have gone through four State Compliance reviews since that school was built. But that policy never showed up on their random audits.) PollyParent [/QUOTE]
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