Salem Academy Charter School — Day-to-day

The school board's recent policy work has focused on updating charter rules for day-to-day operations, beginning with enrollment. In November 2025, the board unanimously approved a charter-amendment request that lets Salem Academy fill openings in grades 10–12 when cohort size, staffing, academic, or financial needs make it necessary, giving the school more flexibility in how it manages mid-cycle enrollment.

A few months later, in February 2026, the board made another unanimous charter change that shifts where expulsion appeals are decided. Under the amendment, the Executive Director—rather than the Board chair—becomes the appellate authority for high-school expulsions, a change parents and families may want to know about when it comes to how discipline disputes are handled.

Most recently, the board took up a new day-to-day matter: student cell phones. The July 2026 meeting agenda called for a vote on a 2026–27 student cell-phone policy, though the reviewed archive did not include minutes establishing the outcome, so the status of that policy is not confirmed in these records.