The Kensington School Board voted to adopt four policies—JICJ, AB, IJ and IKB—at its meeting, following discussion in the board's policy committee and a roll-call vote that recorded unanimous support.

Board members said the policy committee conducted a detailed review before bringing the items back for adoption. The committee discussed how the state Parental Bill of Rights should be presented in local district materials and whether the district should add introductory language; committee members ultimately favored reproducing the state language verbatim to keep consistency across districts.

Policy committee members noted the Parental Bill of Rights contains language required by state law and that much of the Bill's content already existed in district policies. The board also reviewed an unauthorized communication/device policy (first read for this board) and performed the routine annual review of the homework policy. Board members flagged a mistaken header in the homework policy that referenced the “Exeter Region Cooperative District” and agreed to correct that drafting error.

During the meeting, a board member moved to adopt policies JICJ, AB, IJ and IKB as written; another member seconded the motion. The adoption motion passed on a roll-call vote recorded in the meeting minutes. The board chair made the motion: “I will make a motion to adopt the following policies. JICJ, policy AB, policy IJ and policy IKB, as written.” Another board member seconded. The roll-call recorded: Shawn McDonough — Aye; Wendy Larson — Aye; Stephanie Schmidt — Aye; other board members indicated assent during the vote.

The board also discussed that some policies are annual reviews and not substantive rewrites, and that any future statutory changes to the Parental Bill of Rights would be reflected in updates to district policy. The adoption completes the committee's recommendations for these items and places the policies into the district's policy set as written.

The board moved on to other committee reports and business following the vote.