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Meeting Date:
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2/23/2017 - 6:30 PM
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Category:
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Report of the Committee on Legislation, Rules and Policies
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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4. Action on a Request to Revise Administrative Policy 8.20, Student Dress Code
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Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
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Goal 2 Student, Family and Community Engagement Goal 3 Effective and Efficient Operations
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Attachments
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1. Proposed Revised Administrative Policy 8.20 (dated 2/21/17)
2. Proposed New Administrative Procedure 8.20 (dated 2/21/17)
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File Attachment:
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Background:
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A positive school learning environment is a major contributing factor to high student achievement. There are many factors that lead to a positive learning environment: safety, discipline, and school unity are three of those factors. Milwaukee Public Schools believes that wearing school uniforms is one way to achieve all three of these goals.
Attached to this item are proposed changes to Administrative Policy 8.20, Student Dress Code, that reflect implementation of a proposed district-wide uniform policy. The Administration has worked with the Office of the City Attorney to review the proposed changes.
An overview of the proposed changes to Administrative Policy 8.20, Student Dress Code, follows:
1) A policy statement was added to better clarify the objectives of implementing a district-wide policy.
2) In Section 4, Uniforms, additional detail regarding the district-wide policy as it relates to schools exercising the opt-out option is included.
3) A new section (#5, Basic Uniform Guidelines) was added to provide schools and parents with additional information about the basic uniform guidelines.
4) In addition to new language reflecting the proposed district-wide uniform policy, language that is no longer applicable to the student dress code was eliminated.
The Administration recommends that the Board approve the proposed revisions to Administrative Policy 8.20, Student Dress Code, as presented in the attachment to this item.
[SUBSEQUENT TO YOUR COMMITTEE’S MEETING, AND AT YOUR COMMITTEE’S BEHEST, THE ADMINISTRATION HAS SUBMITTED A NEW PROPOSED REVISED ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY 8.20, AS WELL AS AN ENTIRELY NEW PROPOSED ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE 8.20, FOR THE BOARD’S CONSIDERATION. THESE ARE THE DOCUMENTS NOW ATTACHED TO THIS ITEM.]
NOTE: THE BOARD WILL TAKE ACTION TO ACCEPT PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON THIS ITEM.
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Fiscal Impact Statement:
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This item does not authorize expenditures.
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Implementation and Assessment Plan
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Upon approval by the Board, the Office of Board Governance will update the policy to reflect the changes.
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Recommendation:
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Your Committee reports having directed the Administration to provide the Board with the proposed revisions to Administrative Policy 8.20, as reviewed and approved by the Office of the City Attorney, as soon as possible prior to the Board's meeting in order for the Board to determine how it wishes to proceed with this item.
[Subsequent to your committee’s meeting, and in response to your Committee’s direction, the Administration has submitted a new proposed revised Administrative Policy 8.20, as well as an entirely new proposed Administrative Procedure 8.20, for the board’s consideration. These are the documents now attached to this item.]
In regard to the proposed revisions to Administrative Policy 8.20, your Committee is forwarding this item to the Board without recommendation.
Your Committee does recommend, however, that the Board vote to give public hearing on this item. In accordance with Board Rule 1.09(2), the giving of public hearing at the regular monthly Board meeting shall require a recorded affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board’s membership.
NOTE: THE BOARD WILL TAKE ACTION TO ACCEPT PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON THIS ITEM.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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Jacqueline M. Mann, Ph.D. - Board Clerk/Chief Officer
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