These are just some of the municipal meetings and civic events for the coming week. More are on the City of Somerville website .

Taylor Coester A student crosses the street at a Somerville crosswalk April 17.

Uniform school phone policy

School Committee Rules Management Subcommittee , 5:30 p.m. Thursday. The group discusses making one districtwide cellphone policy. With “no wholesale changes or alterations” expected, “the topic has been raised only to craft a uniform approach that is consistent across the entire school district,” a city spokesperson said via email. Policies are not always available easily online from individual schools. The state Senate passed legislation to make schools student-phone free by the fall of 2026, citing a Pew Research Center study that reported

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