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House Education committee introduces local-control cell phone policy (RS32063)
Summary
The House Committee on Education voted to introduce RS32063, a representative-sponsored proposal asking school districts to adopt cell-phone policies prohibiting wireless device use during classroom instruction while preserving local discretion on exceptions and confiscation/return procedures.
The House Committee on Education voted to introduce RS32063, a one-paragraph model policy that would ask Idaho school districts to adopt written cell-phone rules by Aug. 1 and to include them in district conduct manuals.
The bill sponsor, Representative Jaren Crane, said the measure ‘‘is that simple’’ and emphasized local control: districts would draft policies, the district board of trustees would approve them, and each policy must describe procedures for confiscation and return of devices. Crane said the proposal…
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