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KUSD committee weighs stricter cell-phone rules as state deadline looms
Summary
A proposed district policy on student wireless communication devices prompted heated debate on enforcement, bell-to-bell bans, school-level flexibility, and accommodations for health/IEP needs; staff warned a policy must be submitted to the state by July 1.
Kenosha Unified School District staff presented proposed revisions to a student wireless-communication and acceptable-use policy that the state requires districts to adopt by July 1, and committee members spent more than an hour debating enforcement and scope.
The recommended revisions fold a new wireless-device policy into the existing student technology acceptable-use policy (Policy 66.33) and add language about recordings, privacy and voluntary student searches. Staff presenter (Speaker 20) told members the state provided a sample policy and that the district’s…
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