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Committee update: districts weigh student representative models as lawmakers signal support for EV buses and cellphone policy flexibility
Summary
A board committee reported it is preparing a student‑representation policy after a state directive and said lawmakers contacted at a lobbying day signaled support for electric-bus funding and local flexibility on cellphone rules.
Board committees reported on two substantive topics at the March 10 work session: a proposed student-representative policy in response to a state requirement and outcomes from a recent advocacy day in Albany.
Christian, speaking during committee updates, summarized the visitation of other districts and said many had adopted models that include a junior and senior student representative so the junior gains experience before becoming a senior representative. "The idea was that the Junior would then migrate into Senior and have some more experience," Christian said, and he added that…
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