Bulging Binders
"It would just be added to the book," Simmons says. "Nothing got pulled out."
'The book' was a single binder bulging with policies on subjects ranging from homework to family involvement in the schools. As new policies were added, it became hopelessly confused. No one knew what the committee's policies were and no one tried to find out.
Consequently, recent school committees have spent time drafting many policies that duplicated ones already in 'the book.'
For the past three years, Simmons has led other members in an effort to organize the policies and weed out those that were superseded by later measures.
Committee members worked with officials from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (MASC) and with school department administrators.
Jim Hardy, a field services representative for MASC, worked with the committee and has helped dozens of other committees around the state to organize their policies.
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