School Board Policy Committee Meeting April 7, 2026
Review of Policies
A Policy 608: Instructional Services – Special Education
- Moore: Does a child 0-6 yrs old need a diagnosis for services?
- Special Education Specialist: They have their own criteria
- Moore: Does that diagnosis stick beyond age 6?
- Special Education Specialist: The policy sunsets after that age.
B Policy 612.1: Development of Parent Involvement Policies for Title I Programs
- Moore: Do we need racial wording in here?
- Bente: This is a mandatory policy
C. Policy 704.1: Development and Maintenance of an Inventory of Capital Leases and Software Based Information Technology Agreements (SBITA’S)
- Moore: Things under the spending threshold not recorded?
- Bente: No
Revision of Policies
C. Policy 530: Immunization Requirements
- Moore: What are the exceptions? This is an attempt to dismantle parental rights.
E. Policy 618: Assessment of Student Achievement
- Moore: Why are they adding health?
- Bente: Because the state is developing health standards which had not been there before.
New Policies – DISCUSSION
- Bente: States first attempt at having an AI policy, this policy is not mandatory for us to adopt
- Berding: State will hold students and staff accountable for AI use
- Bente: Wants to remind everyone this is not a mandatory policy
- Moore: Likes that human is in definitions pages because AI can not replace humans
- Berding: We should clarify if intent access is in an out of school
- Moore: Likes that students have to indicate AI use
- Steeves: What happens if kids do not indicate it?
- Bente: It might be cheating.
- Steeves: So do we have to add cheating policy?
- Bente: There is a practice in our handbooks.
- Berding: Teacher training on how to spot AI is something we do, and how to deal with kids about why it is bad?
- Moore: How can teachers tell? Are there tools?
- Berding: Yes, but we can not let these tools by the arbiter
- Bente: We do not know where AI information is stored?
- Berding: It would be hard for us to pull things, but we should be able to pull from gemini.
- Bente: If this moves on it would simply be for a first reading.
- Moore: Has this gone through legal?
- Bente: No.
