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Board tightens student cell-phone rules; refusal to surrender device can trigger expulsion recommendation
Summary
Trustees amended Policy 4.47 for secondary students to add a 5-day suspension for recording disruptive incidents and to change refusal to surrender a device from a 4-day suspension to a recommendation for expulsion; the measure passed 6-1 after substantial debate about enforceability and alternate consequences.
The Pulaski County Special School District board voted to amend Policy 4.47 to strengthen consequences related to student use of personal electronic devices in secondary schools.
Dr. Warren, presenting the changes, said the revised language adds a prohibition on using district-assigned or personal devices to record conduct deemed disruptive or disorderly and that "PDs where the person or school assigned used to record conduct…
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