The Cherry Creek School District Board of Education received a proposal Monday night to revise the district’s rules regarding mandatory expulsion for facsimile weapons in response to a controversial ruling last year when a student was expelled for a drill team rifle.

The proposal was part of the board’s regularly scheduled, monthly meeting.

The eventual changes will strike several phrases regarding facsimile weapons from the mandatory expulsion rule. The board will take formal action on the proposal at their next meeting in November and will likely approve the changes.

The rule changes are in response to a case involving Marie Morrow, a senior at Cherokee Trail High School, who was expelled last year for leaving a drill team rifle in her car. Although she was technically expelled, the term expulsion was brief; Morrow later graduated from Cherokee Trail.

After the expulsion, the district came under fire from parents and state lawmakers for the zero-tolerance policy that led to the expulsion.

Morrow eventually lobbied the state Legislature to change the law, and Tustin Amole, district spokeswoman, said the district’s new policies are in response to the changes.

The board also heard an update on the district’s H1N1 flu prevention efforts from Scott Siegfried, assistant superintendent with the district.

The district’s aggressive H1N1 policy this year will be a one-year program, Siegfried said, largely because the swine flu outbreak will become part of normal seasonal flu preparation in coming years.

“This is a one year — one very exceptional year — to address this … then it’ll become normal for the district,” Siegfried said.

The board is scheduled to meet again, Nov. 9 at Polton Elementary School in Aurora.