Administrative Procedure - Accommodating Breastfeeding Students 

The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that students who choose to breastfeed an infant after returning to school are provided reasonable accommodations. A student who is a nursing mother may take reasonable breaks during the school day to express breast milk or breastfeed an infant. The District’s Nondiscrimination Coordinator and/or Title IX Coordinator, in consultation with the Building Principal and building-level Article 26A Resource Person (see Board policies 7:250, Student Support Services, and 7:255, Students Who are Parents, Expectant Parents, or Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence), will implement reasonable accommodations for the nursing mother in a manner that minimizes disruption to the student’s education.

Reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding students, include, but are not limited to:

1. Access to a private and secure room, other than a bathroom, to express breast milk or breastfeed an infant child.

2. Permission to bring onto the school campus a breast pump or other equipment used to express breast milk.

3. Access to a power source for a breast pump or any other equipment used to express breast milk.

4. Access to a place to store expressed breast milk safely.

5. Reasonable breaks to accommodate the student’s need to express breast milk or breastfeed an infant child.

6. The opportunity to make up work missed to due to the student’s use of reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding.

Complaints

The District’s Complaint Manager or Nondiscrimination Coordinator or designee will process any complaints regarding reasonable accommodations for breastfeeding students in accordance with Board policies 2:260, Uniform Grievance Procedure, and/or 7:255, Students Who are Parents, Expectant Parents, or Victims of Domestic or Sexual Violence. In those cases when a complainant appeals the Superintendent’s decision to the Board, the Superintendent will inform the complainant that he or she may appeal the Board’s decision to the Regional Superintendent and, thereafter, to the State Superintendent, in accordance with 23 Ill.Admin.Code §200.40.

LEGAL REF.:    34 C.F.R. §106.40.

105 ILCS 5/10-20.60 and 5/26A.

ADOPTED:         June 7, 2022

UPDATED:         August 21, 2024