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Salt Lake City board weighs cell phone rules after large stakeholder survey
Summary
A district survey of more than 9,000 stakeholders found high familiarity with existing permissive cell-phone guidance but sharp disagreement on classroom use and enforcement. The board asked its policy subcommittee to draft district-level guardrails and return with options.
Salt Lake City School District trustees reopened a longtime debate over student cell phones on April 16, after staff presented results from a districtwide survey of more than 9,000 respondents.
The presentation, led by Dr. Tiffany Hall, summarized responses from over 4,000 parents, about 5,000 students and roughly 500 teachers collected from mid-February through March. Hall said the district’s current administrative procedures mirror the Utah State Board of Education’s permissive model policy, which allows schools and teachers…
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