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Wayland forms cellphone working group; panels and surveys to inform student-device policy

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The committee reviewed the cellphone working group's outreach and schedule: high survey response rates, an administrator panel scheduled Feb. 25, a middle-school panel March 17, and a plan to return policy recommendations April 14.

The School Committee received an update Jan. 27 on the district's working group studying student cellphone and smartphone policy, including survey response totals, scheduled stakeholder panels and a timeline to bring recommendations back to the committee.

Administrators reported unusually high survey participation: several hundred parent/caregiver responses at the elementary and middle-school levels and over 200 responses from high-school families. The district said it will analyze the survey data and review feedback with the working group at a Feb. 4 meeting.

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