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Superintendent outlines pending state education bills affecting district operations
Summary
Superintendent Graham summarized several pieces of pending state legislation that could affect the district, including a phone-restriction law (school hours phone-free), statewide free breakfast reimbursement, the 'access' bill affecting concurrent-credit definitions and charges, and a proposed panic-alert device requirement (House Bill 1492).
Superintendent Graham briefed the board on multiple bills pending in the Arkansas Legislature that administration is watching because they could affect district operations and costs.
Graham said the governor signed the phone-restriction measure that will require phones to be controlled during the school day — described as a ban on phone access from roughly 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of a “zone freeze” — and said districts must “play…
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