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NEISD trustees debate TEA corrective action over student cell-phone policy
Summary
Legal counsel told trustees TEA wants the district to define "school day" as bell-to-bell under HB 1481; trustees debated local control, parental access, and legal risk, opted to seek more agency dialogue and return with a report rather than immediately change policy.
Northeast Independent School District trustees spent more than an hour debating a Texas Education Agency (TEA) corrective action plan that directs the district to revise its FNCE local policy on student personal communication devices.
Mister Miguel Lopez, the board's attorney, told the trustees TEA's position is that "school day" should be defined as bell-to-bell for the purposes of HB 1481 and that failure to comply could lead to formal findings and possible sanctions, including appointment of a conservator or a board of managers. "Those are the kinds of options…
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