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Gadsden board adopts updates on emergency response, reading instruction, phone rules, AEDs and student transportation policy
Summary
The Gadsden Independent School District Board approved a package of policy advisories (265–269) covering emergency planning, instructional goals including the 'science of reading,' stricter cell-phone limits, gym AEDs and water-safety guidance, and separately approved student-transportation policy EEA after a second reading.
The Gadsden Independent School District Board approved a set of policy updates covering emergency response planning, instructional goals emphasizing the science of reading, student cell-phone restrictions during instructional time, installation of automatic external defibrillators in gyms and water-safety guidance, and separately adopted a student‑transportation policy (EEA), the board said during its meeting.
Board members and staff said the emergency-policy update implements a statutory change requiring planned and trained cardiac emergency response procedures for campuses.…
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