NEED TO KNOW Georgia high school teacher Jason Hughes died at his home after an alleged prank went wrong on Friday, March 6 Jayden Ryan Wallace, 18, has been charged with vehicular homicide and reckless driving, while four others have also been arrested The fatal prank came just days after the Hall County School District warned…
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A divided federal appeals court in Ohio ruled against the state’s fourth largest school district on Thursday in a case that pitted its gender pronoun policies against the rights of students who believe there are only two genders. The full Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the suburban Olentangy…
Debate over devices in school: Parents, students, teachers and experts weigh in A new Florida law requires bans cell phone use for Elementary and Middle school students during the entire school day BIG TOPIC THAT PARENTS, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS ARE TALKING ABOUT, AND THIS YEAR IT’S CELL PHONE USE IN CLASS, FUELED BY A NEW…
WILL NEED TO ADJUST TO A NEW WAY OF COMMUNICATING. A KENTUCKY LAW NOW REQUIRES ALL DISTRICTS TO USE TRACEABLE COMMUNICATION APPS. ADDIE MEINERS WAS IN HARDIN COUNTY TODAY, WHERE THE NEW APP THAT MOST DISTRICTS WILL USE WAS ALREADY BEING IMPLEMENTED. HARDIN COUNTY SCHOOLS WAS ALREADY WORKING ON IMPLEMENTING AN APPLICATION FOR STUDENTS, PARENTS…
Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The Rochester City School District is actively seeking public input on how to implement a statewide bell-to-bell cell phone ban set to take effect this fall. The district, which serves 22,000 students, held its first public meeting Tuesday to discuss the policy, which will restrict the use of cell phones and…
KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) – Public school districts are now required to enforce a personal device ban for students during school hours. Gov. Abbott signed HB 1481 into law on Sunday. It requires school district policy to either ban personal devices from campuses entirely or mandate students to lock them away. The law also mandates that…