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Board to await governor's cell-phone law before finalizing school policy; administrators to operationalize recommendations
Summary
Pelham administrators described ongoing high-school study of cell-phone use and said the board will formalize any changes in policy after the governor's final law is issued. The district's committee has reviewed surveys, literature and interim measures and will bring operational recommendations to policy committee.
District administrators told the Pelham Union Free School District Board of Education on April 22 that a high-school committee has been studying cell-phone use and potential restrictions throughout the academic year and will return recommendations for operationalizing a phone policy.
Administrators said the committee has reviewed research (including The Anxious Generation), surveyed students and staff, monitored effects of interim changes this year, and explored options ranging from limited rules to "bell-to-bell" restrictions (interpreted variously as…
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