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SCUC ISD board adopts new student personal-communication-device rule and approves 2025–26 code of conduct
Summary
The Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District Board of Trustees on a 6–0 vote approved a new personal communication device policy (FNC local) and the district’s 2025–26 student code of conduct during its regular meeting, after brief presentations and board discussion.
The Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 6–0 to approve a personal communication-device policy (FNC local) and separately approved the district’s 2025–26 student code of conduct.
The devices policy implements requirements from HB 1481, including prohibiting student use of personal communication devices during the school day, instructions for storage, and specified consequences. The board approved the policy as presented and authorized administrators to develop corresponding administrative regulations and implement the policy with campus-level feedback.
District staff told trustees the draft policy follows state law and reflects work by campus administrators to standardize consequences and practices across 17 campuses. Trustees asked that administrators monitor the administrative workload created by multiple consequence levels; one trustee urged consideration of trimming the number of progressive levels so staff would not be overburdened tracking repeated steps. Administrators said secondary schools already use a similar off-and-put-away approach and that the structure was administrator-driven to align practices across campuses.
The board then approved the 2025–26 student code of conduct, again on a 6–0 vote. Administrators said the code incorporates multiple statutory changes enacted by the recent legislative session, including updates to Chapter 37 classroom removal procedures, parental-involvement provisions referenced in Senate Bill 12, rules about discipline for third-grade and homeless students, and changes to in-school suspension review requirements.
Public comment preceding the votes included a single speaker, Patrick Miller, who identified himself as an SCUC ISD alumnus and an elementary music teacher and read a children’s story he said he had been unable to read in district schools.
Trustees and staff emphasized the adopted policies will be implemented through administrative regulations and a newly formed discipline advisory committee of campus leaders and administrators charged with developing toolkits, training, and monitoring to ensure consistent application across campuses.
