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PCSSD adopts 2025‑26 student handbook with ‘bell‑to‑bell’ cellphone restriction and other changes
Summary
The PCSSD board approved the 2025‑26 student handbook May 13. The handbook formalizes a bell‑to‑bell cellphone restriction (middle‑school pilot of magnetic pouches), expands AI guidance, requires clear or mesh backpacks K‑12 for safety, and implements state changes to SmartCore and school nutrition.
The Pulaski County Special School District board voted May 13 to adopt the 2025–26 student handbook, a package that includes several substantive policy changes administrators said were required by new state law and district safety priorities.
Major changes included: - A bell‑to‑bell cellphone restriction (state law): Middle schools will pilot magnetized pouches that store students’ phones during the school day; students keep the pouch and return it each day. Piloting schools will place unlocking stations near exits so students retrieve devices as they leave. The handbook includes specified exceptions for IEP or 504 accommodations,…
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