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Heads up! We have scanned the upcoming agenda for Forest Hills Local. We found 8 items that need your immediate attention before the vote.
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District Policy Creates Student Data-Sharing Loopholes
Proposed changes to Policy 8330 on student records would give outside vendors, consultants, and volunteers access to your child’s private data by broadly defining them as ‘school officials.’ The policy also classifies student email addresses as ‘directory information’ to automatically sign children up for online apps and services without your direct consent for each one.
Recommended Action Plan
CRITICAL ACTION: This is a data privacy emergency. Call Board President Sara Jonas at (513) 231-3600 before the Oct 23rd committee meeting. Urge her to tell the committee: ‘Amend Policy 8330 to protect student privacy. Remove student emails from directory information and stop sharing our kids’ data with outside vendors without explicit parental consent.’
💰 Impact: Your Child’s Privacy
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 7) |
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Policy Hides Student Class Rank on Transcripts
The district is reviewing Policy 5430, which confirms that class rank will no longer be automatically reported on student transcripts. While it will be calculated for some state scholarships, hiding this key metric of academic achievement hurts students’ college and scholarship applications by default.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND ACTION: Call Board Vice President Katie Stewart at (513) 231-3600. Tell her: ‘Our high-achieving students have earned their class rank. Amend Policy 5430 to require that class rank be automatically included on all high school transcripts.’
💰 Impact: Devaluing Merit
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 6) |
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New AI Policy Opens Door to Outside Influence, Weaker Standards
The district is creating a new policy (7540.09) to govern Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom. The policy establishes an ‘AI workgroup’ with unnamed ‘external representatives’ to guide implementation and includes language that could weaken the school’s ability to penalize students for AI-assisted cheating.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND SAFEGUARDS: Call any Board Member at (513) 231-3600. Urge them to ensure the Policy Committee adopts the strongest possible protections in Policy 7540.09, including a public list of all approved AI tools and clear consequences for academic dishonesty. Parents must have oversight of AI in the classroom.
💰 Impact: Weakened Academic Standards
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| NEEDS REVIEW (LEVEL 6) |
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Attendance Policy Creates ‘Intervention Teams’ for Families
The updated attendance policy (po5200) creates ‘Absence Intervention Teams’ for students the school deems ‘habitually truant.’ This team, which can include outside agencies, will create an ‘intervention plan’ for the student and family, inserting the school into private family matters and creating a pathway to legal action.
Recommended Action Plan
PROTECT PARENTAL AUTHORITY: Call any Board Member at (513) 231-3600. State: ‘Parents, not the school, are responsible for their child’s attendance. Policy 5200 oversteps by creating intervention teams to manage families. This must be removed.’
💰 Impact: Family Privacy
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| MONITOR (LEVEL 5) |
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Policy Change Reduces Oversight on Federal Grant Spending
Under proposed Policy 6325, the district is increasing the spending limits for purchases made with federal grant money that do not require competitive quotes. This change to the ‘micro-purchase’ threshold reduces transparency and public oversight on how federal funds are spent.
Recommended Action Plan
DEMAND TRANSPARENCY: Call Treasurer Alana Cropper’s office via the district line at (513) 231-3600. Ask that the Policy Committee reject the increase to the micro-purchase threshold in Policy 6325. ‘Taxpayer-funded grants require more transparency, not less.’
💰 Impact: Reduced Oversight
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| ALERT (LEVEL 4) |
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Vague Title — Manual Review Required
The agenda lists a policy update titled ‘po6465 AFFINITY, REWARDS, OR OTHER DISCOUNT PROGRAMS.pdf’, but the text of the document was not provided. This policy could relate to financial ethics and vendor relationships.
Recommended Action Plan
INVESTIGATE: Open the file ‘po6465 AFFINITY, REWARDS, OR OTHER DISCOUNT PROGRAMS.pdf’ in the Official Agenda (linked above) to confirm whether it contains sensitive policy changes before the committee meeting.
💰 Impact: Undisclosed
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✅ Wins to Defend
Good moves worth showing up to support so they stick.
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| Major Win (LEVEL 8) |
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WIN: New Policy Requires Transparency from Tech Vendors
The proposed update to Policy 6460 adds strong new requirements for technology vendors that handle student data. It forces them to protect student records, prohibits them from using data for marketing, and requires the district to directly notify parents about which vendors have access to their children’s information.
How to Lock It In
SECURE THIS WIN: Call any Board Member at (513) 231-3600 to express strong support for the new transparency requirements for tech vendors in Policy 6460. This is a major step toward protecting student data, and we must ensure the committee and the full board pass it without weakening it.
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| Major Win (LEVEL 7) |
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WIN: District Poised to Ban Lab-Grown Meat in Schools
A proposed update to the Food Services policy (po8500) would explicitly prohibit the district from purchasing or serving ‘cultivated-protein food products.’ This is a proactive and common-sense measure to keep lab-grown meat out of our kids’ school lunches.
How to Lock It In
AMPLIFY THIS WIN: Call any Board Member at (513) 231-3600 to thank them for protecting student health with the proposed change to Policy 8500. Getting this on the record makes it harder to reverse and provides a model for neighboring districts to follow.
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