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District outlines policies to comply with House Bill 2299: bell‑to‑bell phone limits and social‑media rules
Summary
Administrators reviewed changes required by House Bill 2299: restricting student access to personal devices during the school day and establishing a policy to prohibit employees from private social‑media messaging with students; the district issued an RFP for a unified mass‑communication system and will present a vendor recommendation at the next board meeting.
Administrators told the board that changes are coming as a result of House Bill 2299 and that district policy updates will standardize student access to personal devices and staff communications. On the student-device side, administrators summarized the change as a bell-to-bell restriction: students should not have access to personal technologies while in school.
“The short takeaway is bell to bell, students are not to have access to their own personal, technologies,” an administrator said. The district will encourage families not to bring devices and will require turned-off devices to be stored in lockers or cubbies during the school day. Separately, the board heard that the bill requires a policy or procedure prohibiting employees from communicating with students by private social-media messages; the district issued an RFP for a unified mass communication system, received eight responses and scheduled vendor interviews and demonstrations for June 4. Administrators said they expect a recommendation to the board by the next meeting and will communicate changes building by building.
