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State’s biggest school districts pass cellphone policies ahead of state deadline

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. DENVER | Nearly all of Colorado’s 20 largest school districts have adopted restrictions on cellphones before a state deadline Wednesday. A state law passed last year required districts to pass cellphone policies by July 1, although it did not mandate that districts ban phones. Five of the 20 […]

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HOLD THE PHONE: Aurora schools scrolling through student phone policies

AURORA | Aurora Hills Middle School teacher Tracie Jansen, for the most part, has her students work on classroom assignments with pencils and paper. The old school technology in her sixth-and-seventh-grade language arts class, free of cell phones, has breathed new life into the classroom, she said. “My students are more engaged and enabled to […]