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Board reviews proposed changes to student handbooks, including restricted cell phone use at high school

3570717 · May 27, 2025
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Summary

Superintendents and principals recommended changes to elementary, middle and high school handbooks. Key proposals: middle-school phones required in lockers, high-school phones allowed only during passing periods (not in classrooms), and an elementary discipline matrix. The board will take action June 9.

District administrators presented recommended handbook updates May 27 that would change student electronic-device rules, tighten attendance and truancy language, and add an elementary discipline matrix. The board discussed those recommendations and will consider formal action at its June 9 meeting.

Assistant Superintendent Becky Mader summarized level-specific proposals: elementary handbooks would add a discipline matrix and clarifications on chronic absenteeism and truancy reporting; middle-school language would require personal electronic devices to…

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