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After more than two decades of offering free breakfast to all students, Smithville ISD will begin charging for morning meals starting this school year, a decision driven by mounting financial pressures on the district's child nutrition program.

By Kristen Meriwether, Publisher When the state legislature passed House Bill 1481 this session, it made a lot of headlines, claiming the law would ban cellphones in classrooms. But the law actually gives school districts a choice to ban cellphones entirely, or allow students to store them. And the law