Springfield public schools currently do not have a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, but that could soon change.
The school board policy committee will consider a proposal to add sexual orientation to the list of categories covered under the district’s anti-discrimination policy.
School board member Scott McFarland says he and fellow board member Bill Looby recently discovered that sexual orientation had been omitted from the policy and decided that needed to be corrected.
McFarland says he hopes the change will be viewed as non-controversial.
