- Every fifth grade student gets a Droid Incredible phone. That is the new policy in Katy, Texas, where educators are counting on a simple approach to control student cell phone use: the phones can access the campus WiFi network, but the phones are configured so that they cannot neither make calls nor send text messages.
- Minnesota educators and police increasingly deal with fake Facebook identities. They say that the law, and law enforcement training, both need to catch up with the kids.
- In Pennsylvania, a school barred a sixth grade girl from orchestra practice and withdrew her from the math team. The school requires random drug testing of all students in extracurricular activities; her parents refused permission. Such searches are federally constitutional, but are not allowed under the state constitution.
- Meanwhile, Kansas educators may adopt random drug testing for all students in extracurriculars. They are considering both data on the effect of such policies and various implementation options.
- Students keep brawling at a middle school in St. Petersburg, Florida, where educators explain how they will try to improve the school climate.
- An Ohio high school suspended ten student athletes for twenty to fifty percent of their remaining games, after a parent reported that the students were drinking at weekend parties.