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Palm Beach school board begins implementing Floridacellphone law; debate continues over extending ban to high schools
Summary
Boardmembers discussed Florida House Bill 1105, which bans cellphone use K-8 during the school day. Members directed staff to develop district policy for the mandate and debated whether to include high schools; a workshop was scheduled to return the policy for development.
Board members on May 7 addressed Florida House Bill 1105, the new state law that prohibits student cellphone use during the school day for kindergarten through eighth grade, and directed district staff to develop a local implementation plan while debating whether to extend a ban to high schools.
Board member Edwin Ferguson introduced the topic as a discussion item and said he supported prohibiting phone use at the high-school level as well, calling in-classphone distraction “a problem.” Superintendent Michael J. Burke told the board the district will need to implement the…
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