Deming Public Schools staff briefed the board on recent legislative language addressing indigenous regalia and graduation ceremonies and proposed matching policy edits to the district's graduation-exercise and discipline policies.

Why it matters: The change prevents students from being disciplined for wearing tribal or cultural regalia at graduation and requires the district to reflect that protection in policy and practice.

Staff described two policy edits: one to graduation-exercise rules to permit regalia and a second to student-discipline language to state explicitly that wearing regalia at celebrations is not a disciplinary violation. The presenter said the statutory change went into effect immediately and that the district's advisory will adopt the law's protective language.

Board members expressed no objection. Staff said the edits are straightforward statutory incorporations and will be included in the advisory packet returned for board consideration.