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Board hears state legislative proposals on classroom cell‑phone limits and fetal‑development video requirement
Summary
Superintendent Doctor Wood briefed the Alma School District board on two pending state bills: one would require schools to show a fetal‑development video in certain health classes; the other would require districts to adopt 'bell‑to‑bell' limits on student cellphone use with narrow medical and IEP exceptions.
The Alma School District board received an update on pending state legislation that, if enacted, would affect classroom instruction and school‑level device policies.
Doctor Wood, the district superintendent, told trustees about two bills that are receiving attention at the state capitol. One, introduced in the House and amended in the Senate, would require inclusion of a specific fetal‑development video in health and safety classes beginning as early as fifth grade, with related material in…
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