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UPDATE: OPRF Board Votes to Change Lunch Policies
District 200 formalizes planned changes with 4-3 vote.
Update, 10:36 p.m. Oak Park and River Forest High School juniors and seniors in "good standing" and with parents' consent may go off campus for lunch next year.
The vote was 4 to 3, with John Phelan, Ralph Lee, Terry Finnegan and board president Dietra Miller voting for the changes. Amy McCormick, Sharon Patchak-Layman and Jacques Conway voted against it.
The administration will define what "good standing" means.
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Thursday's meeting also included a surprise announcement by Conway, who's said he was resigning from the board after two terms.
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Although members of the District 200 Oak Park-River Forest High School board have already indicated they want to change the school's longstanding open campus policy, they're expected to make the changes official at a meeting tonight.
The board gathered from open campus lunch privileges.
They're also considering changes that would allow juniors and seniors to participate in open campus, albeit under certain conditions, including reviews of student behavior, attendance, tardies, academic standing and parental permissions.
Tonight's public meeting takes place at 7 p.m. in the library, 201 N. Scoville Ave.
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