Haxtun BOE looks at possibility of creating armed staff policy

Administration updates and reports and a single action item is all that board of education members tended to in a mid-August meeting lasting just 35 minutes in the high school library last week. The Haxtun Board of Education approved a lengthy list of staff assignments and heard detailed reports from Superintendent Aron Jones and Elementary Principal Becky Heinz on Tuesday, Aug. 20. In doing so, the Board reviewed preliminary enrollment numbers for the current year, took the next step in looking at policy regarding armed school personnel and discussed changes to the student dress code policy....