Really minor changes to look over there. Um if you actually see the red the the striketh through on the note, that's from the Minnesota School Board Association um prov providing additional insight but not actually recommending um policy change. Um and there's an added court case in the legal references that relate

Um policy 616 provides multiple layers and comprehensive review at both the community site and district level around the selection implementation of um curriculum and instructional resources. Um there's some changes in section C number three around our sassiac um committee and just some of the um some of the verbiage around their function.

policy 620. Um, very minimal changes to recommend from um both director's review and the Minnesota School Board Association model policy. Um, this is a policy we used, we leaned on quite a bit during Operation Metro Surge this year. So, believe it stood strong and provided the right guidance for our staff.

Um there's more frequency of changes from the Minnesota School Board Association um around the surveys, but a lot of it is additional verbiage. Um I believe she mentioned specifically around like delineating between the student and the parent role um when it comes to the the policy. Um, also I think it um there were some statute revisions around I think it was at the federal level um around parental access um for what we're asking from students for them to be able to review the tools and the resources as well as like um instructional materials that are associated with it.

I just think we're having been in this role for several years, like I feel like we have pretty sound procedures in place. We're continuing to kind of fine-tune them and making sure we're always balancing between the need for to make sure we're upholding Furpa and student data privacy, but also being as like open and transparent, especially around instruction as possible.

Policy 427 is the workload limits for special education teachers and it defines the biggest change is the um definition around the indirect services that the special education teachers can provide ind or special education or related services can provide indirect services to pair professionals to teachers to general education teachers regarding a student as it relates to their IEP and their specialized direct instructions

The um most significant change that I can see is there's just a couple things added to the Minnesota Department of Education. some minor changes with that, but the biggest change is in the immunization of records and sharing the records and that um individuals need a release of information to receive those records. Um and that is a release of information even if a student is going to be transferring to a different school district, which our system is, you know, it's always set up to they release all those records, but um immunizations will be part of that release.

615 has um some pretty significant changes. One of the um main reasons is because they are actually changing the MTAS which used to be the test Minnesota test of academic skills um and they changing it to an alternative test. So it'll be the alternative um science MCA or science alternative MCA test instead of just a skills test. And so because of that the um a lot of the schedule changes.

You know, I think probably what it does the most is because, you know, we've been doing this as an IEP team for years and so like this is the process we've always been following. However, the language and the information that we can do to address when we're making those decisions, I think it did a really nice job clearing that up specifically even for like our students that are e um may not, you know, English is not their first language, but they also have a significant cognitive and so they are also still required to take the access test, but they can take an alternative access test and I think that this helps really align that language with some of those decisions.

So we are in we are wrapping up year two of a three-year pilot state funded and uh and codified for 12 school districts in the state. So Amy has um helped co-lead that. We have a project champion um Morgan McDow. She couldn't be here today, but she's been intensively involved in looking at policy. Attendance is a big topic as the board may be aware. So, um and encouraging. I mean, even with what we've got going this year, Morgan just presented to our leadership last week, was it? Um seeing a 2.4% um decrease in students that are chronically absent even with all that we had this year. So that's like it's giving us most um encouragement and we're staying curious and committed because of that information.

do um do you so like there's some examples that were shared um when we did our summer work this last summer that it was new to me and I don't know if we actually brought some of that information to the board um but one of the examples that some of the clerical provided was um you know it it impacts um like Harriet Bishop Sky Oaks and Eagle Ridge so a lot of families drop off but if they kind of get a late start well then they'll just drop off the elementary student and then take the student to to the middle school a little bit late or if they're dropping off and picking up for whatever reason, they sometimes go to the elementary and pick up the elementary student first and then go get the middle school student and so they leave about an hour early. And so a lot of times we're seeing some of that just because of proximity and if it's really cold out, they maybe don't want to come out again, you know.

Yeah. Uh definitely difficult with there's so many different individual so many different situations and fact patterns that you're trying to you know and thank goodness I mean the policy is kind of supposed to address things at a high level and here's our general you know kind of guidelines but it's you know something like this in terms of attendance tardiness and reasons and what's going on I mean everything is it can be so individual that that I I definitely understand that the challenges they go into. I can sympathize with the challenges that that go into uh drafting something and deciding what to bring forth as part of your policy um uh changes. Uh without a doubt.

We are uh looking just for 418 to address uh some Minnesota statutory language that MSBA is recommending that we change. um eliminating uh certain language there that provided exceptions and then putting it back to the statute and pushing it back to board approval for any exceptions versus listing them independently is pretty much the gist of what is being applied.