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Committee lays over stricter student mobile-device policy for continued review after administrators say some buildings already prepared
Summary
Committee moved the proposed revisions to the student mobile-phone and personal electronic device policy for first reading and layover, asking administration to coordinate building-level input and legal review; motion carried 3-0.
The Policy Committee advanced revised language on student use of mobile phones and personal electronic devices for a first reading and committee layover, building toward districtwide enforcement that administrators say some schools have already begun implementing.
Board member Juan Romero framed the draft as an attempt to remove ambiguity and increase classroom focus, citing research that the presence of phones reduces attention: "Even just having a presence of a phone even sitting on a desk ... it still impairs the student's ability to learn." Romero proposed a no-tolerance…
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