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Board discusses new Arizona law limiting student use of wireless devices; district will form implementation committee
Summary
Superintendent Nicole Samaniego briefed the board on recently enacted state legislation that requires districts to adopt policies limiting student use of wireless communication devices during the school day; the board asked staff to form an advisory committee of administrators, teachers, students and parents to create an enforceable local policy.
Superintendent Nicole Samaniego told the Douglas Unified Governing Board that a newly enacted Arizona law requires each school district to adopt and enforce policies limiting student access to wireless communication devices during the school day and to publish related procedures and notices.
"Each school district board shall prescribe and enforce policies and procedures that govern student access to the Internet, govern what devices they use, how they use them, when they use them," Samaniego told the board, reading from the statute's language and explaining that…
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