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Denver, Colorado – Tonight, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to adopt a bell-to-bell cell phone policy for their full instructional day for every student in the district. Stand for Children Colorado has been working alongside parents, educators, and community members across Colorado for more than a year to push for districtwide bell-to-bell/away-all-day […]
During the Denver Public Schools Board of Education work session today, the board adjusted their cell phone policy language to prohibit student use of “personal communication devices during the instructional school day while in school buildings,” with devices out of sight and turned off. They made other adjustments and revised policy should be available soon, […]
The Denver Public Schools Board of Education is preparing to vote on a new student device policy. DPS’s own survey found that 76% of educators and 64% of the broader community support a bell-to-bell phone policy. They created the Communication Devices Advisory Committee (CDAC) who spent months developing a clear, research-aligned recommendation: a districtwide bell-to-bell policy that keeps […]
Over the past several months, Denver Public Schools put together the Communications Devices Advisory Committee (CDAC) to tackle a question many districts across the country are wrestling with: What role should cell phones play in schools? The committee, made up of parents, educators, mental health professionals, and community members, spent months reviewing research, hearing from stakeholders, and discussing […]
Today, the House Judiciary Committee will hear SB26-115 Post-Conviction Relief for Certain Offenders. This bill updates Colorado law to expand access to post-conviction relief for eligible individuals after a criminal conviction. The bill allows certain offenders to seek sentence reconsideration or relief under specified conditions, creating an additional legal pathway for courts to review cases after sentencing. Stand […]
Stand for Children Colorado Executive Director Krista Spurgin has an op-ed in the Denver Post making the case for bell-to-bell cell phone policies in Colorado schools. Every school district in Colorado must adopt a cell phone policy by July 1, 2026. Krista’s piece explains why the type of policy matters just as much as having […]
