{
  "code": "EA",
  "title": "Instructional Goals and Objectives",
  "description": "Conroe ISD Board Policy EA (Local) governs instructional goals and objectives for the district. It includes requirements related to the availability of instructional plans or course syllabi, covering how these documents are shared with district administration and parents and how they are made accessible on the district's website each semester.",
  "last_action_date": "2025-10-21",
  "last_action_result": "adopted",
  "timeline_local": [
    {
      "date": "2025-10-21",
      "school_year": "2025-2026",
      "action": "adopted",
      "result": "adopted",
      "summary": "This update to Conroe ISD Board Policy EA (Local) establishes a new \"Availability of Instructional Plan or Course Syllabus\" section, requiring the District to post instructional plans or course syllabi on its website each semester and requiring teachers to provide copies to district administration and parents of enrolled students, with additional copies available upon parent request.",
      "changes_added": [
        "Availability of Instructional Plan or Course Syllabus (section heading)",
        "At the beginning of each semester, the District shall post on its website an instructional plan or course syllabus for each class offered in the District that semester.",
        "In order for the District to make this required posting, each teacher shall provide a copy of the instructional plan or course syllabus for each class for which the teacher provides instruction to: 1. District administration; and 2. The parent of each student enrolled in the class.",
        "Additionally, each teacher shall provide for additional copies of the instructional plan or course syllabus for each class for which the teacher provides instruction to be made available to a parent of a student enrolled in the class on the parent's request."
      ],
      "meeting_notes_url": "https://cisd-meetings.boardmonitor.app/meeting.html?id=2025-10-21_regular",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source_redline": "EA_LOCAL.pdf",
      "notes": "The entire policy page (page 2) appears to be new/added content — all text is rendered in red underline with no black unchanged text and no red strikethrough deletions. This appears to be a brand-new local policy being adopted for the first time (Policy Update 1, as noted at the bottom of the page)."
    },
    {
      "date": "2025-09-16",
      "school_year": "2025-2026",
      "action": "first_reading",
      "result": "first_reading",
      "summary": "This update to Conroe ISD's Board Policy EA (Local) – Instructional Goals and Objectives creates a new \"Availability of Instructional Plan or Course Syllabus\" section. It requires the District to post instructional plans or course syllabi on its website at the start of each semester, directs teachers to provide copies to district administration and parents, and obligates teachers to make additional copies available to parents upon request.",
      "changes_added": [
        "Availability of Instructional Plan or Course Syllabus (section heading)",
        "At the beginning of each semester, the District shall post on its website an instructional plan or course syllabus for each class offered in the District that semester.",
        "In order for the District to make this required posting, each teacher shall provide a copy of the instructional plan or course syllabus for each class for which the teacher provides instruction to: 1. District administration; and 2. The parent of each student enrolled in the class.",
        "Additionally, each teacher shall provide for additional copies of the instructional plan or course syllabus for each class for which the teacher provides instruction to be made available to a parent of a student enrolled in the class on the parent's request."
      ],
      "meeting_notes_url": "https://cisd-meetings.boardmonitor.app/meeting.html?id=2025-09-16_regular",
      "confidence": "high",
      "source_redline": "EA_LOCAL.pdf",
      "notes": "Page 2 shows the entire policy body in red underlined text, indicating this is entirely new language being added to a previously blank or minimal local policy. There is no red strikethrough text, so no language is being removed. The cover page heading reads \"Discuss Revisions to Board Policy EA (Local),\" indicating a first reading."
    }
  ],
  "timeline_legal": [],
  "policy_connect_url": "https://policyconnect.org/policy/conroe-isd/EA"
}