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Committee discusses House Bill 781, leans toward administrator-led approach for bell-to-bell phone limits
Summary
Committee members discussed HB 781, which requires school districts to adopt bell-to-bell restrictions on student smartphone use for the 2025–26 school year, and agreed to defer specific policy language to building administrators while monitoring implementation and funding needs.
Members of the Concord School Board communication and policy committee discussed the state’s recently passed House Bill 781, which the committee said requires school districts to adopt policies restricting student smartphone use during instructional periods beginning in the 2025–26 school year. Chair Karen Baker summarized the committee’s reading of the bill and the district’s options: “The bill assumed to be effective for the 2025, 2026 school year requires public schools to adopt policies to limit the use of smartphones by students,” she said during the meeting. Committee members expressed support for the bill’s goal but leaned toward allowing building administrators and teachers, particularly at the high school level,…
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