The Colorado State legislatures passed House Bill 1135 earlier this year enforcing every district and school to have their own phone policy for the near future.
“The legislators passed a bill called House Bill 1135, and in that bill, they require school districts or any public school to adopt and implement policies limiting student cell use by July 1st of 2026,” Erick Finnestead, Principal of Silver Creek High School said.
St. Vrain Valley School District’s approach is to provide specific rules about what students can do with phones and what they can’t but they mostly left it up to the schools…