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Policy Alert: School Board Member Code of Ethics

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   School boards may want to consider reviewing and possibly amending their local school district’s current policy or enact such a policy if there is not currently a policy related to school board member code of ethics. …

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Policy Alert – Privacy of Individual Student Records

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   Senate Bill 63: protects the privacy of individual student records.   SB 63 prohibits the collection of student information not necessary for the calculation of funding for public education, the determination of student academic progress, state …

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Policy Alert – Administering epinephrine auto-injectors

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   House Bill 1167: Allows schools to keep and administer epinephrine auto-injectors in certain cases.   HB 1167 authorizes schools to acquire and maintain a stock of epinephrine auto-injectors pursuant to a prescription issued by an authorized …

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Policy Alert – Board Organizational Meeting

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   ASBSD had amended sample policy BCA: Annual Board Organizational Meeting.   School boards may want to consider reviewing and possibly amending their local school district’s current policy or enact such a policy if there is not …

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Policy Alert – Authorized Signatures

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1126: Allows an appointed school board member to countersign school board payments.   House Bill 1126 amended SDCL 13-8-26 and as of July 1, 2014, school boards have the right to designate which school board …

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Policy Alert: Electronic Payment

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1104: Allows local governing bodies to require the payment for certain goods and services by electronic transaction.   SDCL 4-3-27 was amended by House Bill 1104.   SDCL 4-3-27 authorizes school officials and employees to …

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Policy Alert: Board Member Conflict of Interest

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   SB 82: Increases the allowable financial level of purchases, sales, and contracts made by public officers of political subdivisions.   SDCL 6-1-2, the statute which identifies certain exceptions to the governing board member conflict of interest statute …

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Policy Alert: Extracurricular Activity Suspensions

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   SB 113: Revises the minimum suspension requirements for students participating in extracurricular activities.   SDCL 13-32-9 was amended by Senate Bill 113.   SDCL 13-32-9 requires students participating in SDHSAA activities to be suspended if adjudicated, …

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Policy Alert: Open Enrollment

ASBSD Policy Alert will be your source for the latest updates, commentary and information on school board policy.   HB 1033: Revises open enrollment provisions regarding the application review process of siblings of open enrolled students.   An Open Enrollment statute, SDCL 13-28-43, was amended by HB 1033 to ensure that students from the same …

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