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Board hears mixed early results on cell-phone ban as students and staff urge more data and consistent implementation
Summary
School leaders presented state-required discipline-referral data and a high-school student survey about the new cell-phone law. Students described ticket-based and restorative approaches; several board members requested comparable middle-school data before making policy adjustments.
The Ithaca Board of Education heard a detailed check-in on the district's implementation of New York's new cell-phone rules on March 24, with students, principals and staff describing different local approaches and several trustees asking for more comparable data before deciding on policy changes.
Administrators said they had submitted the state-mandated discipline-referral figures and shared a high-school student survey assembled by Ithaca High reps and principal Arnold. "Our hope was increased face-to-face communication, increased engagement in learning," the staff member presenting the data said, while noting the survey arrived the same morning and had not yet been synthesized into averages for the board.
The presentation underscored variation across schools. Student…
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