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Lake Dallas ISD updates student code of conduct, adopts state-mandated cell-phone restriction
Summary
The board approved an updated student code of conduct that incorporates recent state law changes and adopted a district policy to prohibit student access to personal communication devices during the school day, with limited exceptions.
Lake Dallas Independent School District trustees on July 21 approved updates to the district's student code of conduct and adopted a new local cell-phone policy required by state law.
Chief Operations Officer John Modica told the board the biannual code-of-conduct update reflects recent legislation. "One single person has to be named as the campus behavior coordinator," Modica said, and the district will designate that role most often to campus principals.
The board-approved code adds an explicit prohibition of conduct motivated by antisemitism, names short-barrel firearms in the prohibited-weapons list, and expands the tobacco prohibition to include nicotine pouches.…
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