Bethlehem school Superintendent Dr. Joseph Roy started the June 9 BASD meeting by honoring students who participated in the mosaic mural project. The students showed off their work that has been hung in the BASD Educational Center. The project was to make the center a visually welcoming building that would showcase the work of students and teachers.

During the Curriculum Committee meeting, Assistant Superintendent Dr. Jack Silva conducted the first reading of a new cyberbullying proposal.

"Our recommendation is to have a single policy, bring it up to state code. (It) used to be under the harassment policy," Silva said.

The policy defines what bullying is and how it takes place in the school setting, consequences and concludes by stating that BASD prohibits all forms of bullying.

Director Eugene McKeon thanked Silva for his work on the policy.

"Thank you for putting this together. I have had parents and grandparents coming in to say their son/grandson had been affected. I wish we could address it outside the school scope, but this is a start," McKeon said.

Silva also addressed the possibility of increasing the district's online course offerings. The BASD has been working to expand a two-track system online learning system. The first track is to recover students currently attending cyber charter schools through the BASD Cyber Academy. The second track is to provide BASD students the option of taking some or all components of their courses online.

In the 2012-13 school year, the district created the BASD Cyber academy. An agreement with VLN Partners through Colonial IU 20 which helped keep about 30 students from attending cyber charter schools.

During the 2013-2014 school year two online courses were offered to 12th graders.

"We currently have a two-track system for online learning approach," Silva said. "We want to offer online courses to students enrolled in BASD, want to move into that world. We want to expand that a little further; we need a system that will have continuing education built in it for teachers."

Silva said he would like to enter into an agreement with the Blended Schools system.