Poll: 65% support for phone-free schools, state opens ATLAS portal

by Steve Brawner (BRAWNERSTEVE@MAC.COM)

Almost 65% of Arkansas parents favored restricting student cell phones in schools in a poll commissioned by the national school reform group ExcelinEd.

In other education news, the Arkansas Department of Education released school and district results on the new Arkansas Teaching, Learning, and Assessment System (ATLAS) October 16.

The poll of 805 registered voters with K-12 students in the home found that almost 65% favored phone-free schools, with 42.03% strongly favoring the idea and 22.76% somewhat favoring it. Less than 30% opposed the idea, with 15.42% somewhat opposed and 14.37% strongly opposed.

Poll: 65% support for phone-free schools, state opens ATLAS portal