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Pine Bluff board to study cell‑phone pouch rollout after state law; committee meeting set
Summary
Board members heard plans to form a committee and start public input on implementing a new state law regulating student cell‑phone use; the district will consider student pouches, handbook changes and an ASBA model policy before returning with recommended procedures.
The Pine Bluff School District Board of Education discussed plans to implement a new state law restricting in‑class cell‑phone use and scheduled an open committee meeting to gather input and shape procedures.
Superintendent Barber told the board the district will convene a committee the following day at the Jack Robey campus to review the law, the district's current policy and a proposed pouch system that would allow students to keep phones on their person but not use them during instructional time.…
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