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Sayville board plans first reading of state-mandated cell-phone policy; committee recommends 'bell-to-bell' locker storage
Summary
Following a New York State budget provision, Sayville UFSD administrators and a stakeholder committee recommended a district policy that would require student phones to be stored from bell to bell; the board will hold a first reading and the committee plans a December review of implementation.
District officials told the Sayville Union Free School District board that new language in the state budget requires districts to adopt a cell-phone policy and that the district's stakeholder committee — composed of principals, parents, students, teachers and a parent who serves as a volunteer fire chief — met to draft an approach.
A district representative (Speaker 15) said the committee landed on a key operational feature for this community: phones would be stored "from bell…
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