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Superintendent credits new cell‑phone policy with sharp drop in high‑school failures
Summary
Superintendent Jose told the board the high school’s failure rate fell to 3.6% in 2024–25 from a long‑term 10.3% baseline, a change he described as a 37% decrease and attributed largely to a stricter cell‑phone policy and use of pouches, while cautioning the correlation with statewide test scores is unclear.
Superintendent Jose reported to the Montoursville Area SD board that the district has seen a marked decline in high‑school course failures since adopting a stricter cell‑phone policy.
Jose said the district’s long‑running average failure rate of 10.3 percent (drawn from the 2017–18 baseline cited in the meeting) fell to 3.6 percent in the 2024–25 school year. "We concluded the 2425 school year with a 3.6 percent," he told the board, and…
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