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After heated debate, the Norwich school board Tuesday adopted a policy ensuring a safe environment for transgender students in city schools.

The Norwich Board of Education held two closed-door sessions recently to discuss the conduct of a board member following a parents complaint.

A parent complained that Norwich school board member Heather Fowler had shared confidential information about her daughter to an outside group.

The Norwich Board of Education held an emergency meeting Saturday and voted to make mask-wearing optional beginning Monday.

The Norwich Board of Education will meet in an online meeting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Some have criticized the board for not holding the meeting in person.

With less than three weeks before Connecticut’s statewide school mask mandate is expected to expire, local school administrators are hurriedly trying to figure out what to do when the “mask or no mask” decision falls to them.

Connecticut has been under a mask mandate, set to expire Feb. 15. The state Senate is expected to vote Feb. 14 on whether to extend the mandate.

Drastic changes were launched Friday in response to ongoing student behavior probes at Teachers Memorial Global Studies Middle School.

The Norwich Board of Education hopes to bring back school resource police officers to the citys two middle schools

Eleven candidates are competing for nine spots on the Norwich Board of Education.