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House Education and Workforce Committee adopts H‑2 substitute updating school wireless-device rules
Summary
The House Education and Workforce Committee adopted an H‑2 substitute for "House Bill 41 41" that bases a school’s wireless-device policy on the school’s highest grade level, extends middle-school standards to elementary students, and clarifies that a “basic telephone” is excluded from the definition of wireless communication device.
The House Education and Workforce Committee adopted an H‑2 substitute for House Bill 41 41 that revises schools’ wireless-communication device policy, the committee recorded.
The substitute bases a school’s device policy on the school’s highest grade level, applies middle-school standards to elementary students, and carves out several exemptions, including medically necessary devices, district-owned or district-designated instructional devices, lesson-specific devices, and devices used for special education programming or 504 plans.…
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