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Board adopts 2025–26 student code changes: statewide ban on personal communication devices, vaping discipline updated, extracurricular restrictions clarified
Summary
MISD trustees approved updates to the 2025–26 student code of conduct to comply with recent state legislation on personal communication devices and vaping and to clarify local rules on extracurricular-activity eligibility when students are placed in ISS or OSS.
The MISD School Board on Oct. 5 approved updates to the 2025–26 student code of conduct to implement recent state laws on personal communication devices and vaping and to add a local rule limiting extracurricular participation for students placed in in-school or out-of-school suspension.
Mike Chacon, who presented the code updates on behalf of administration, said the most visible change responds to state House Bill 1481 and will restrict students’ personal communication devices while on campus. “Once they arrive to the campus, those phones have to be put away,” Chacon said, describing the district’s planned enforcement steps.
Why it matters: the changes align the district’s discipline and code-of-conduct language with state law and clarify local practice for coaches, band…
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