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Amplifying student voices

Washougal School District revamping how student representatives interact with board of directors

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Washougal School District Superintendent Mary Templeton (left) swears in Washougal School Board Director Angela Hancock (center) while board director Donna Sinclair (right) looks on, during a September 2018 school board meeting. (Post-Record file photo)

Earlier this year Washougal School District superintendent Mary Templeton and Washougal High School principal Aaron Hansen had a conversation about the role of the high school’s student representatives to the district’s board of directors.

For the past 10 years, the school has been sending selected students to deliver reports at school board meetings, but Templeton and Hansen agreed they wanted to come up with and implement a formal policy that instructs how the representatives will be chosen, as well as their roles and responsibilities while giving them more of a “voice.”

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