Prince George's schools to open with new cell phone policy, orientation program

Prince George's County schools will open to students Aug. 23 with a new cell phone policy, orientation program and plan to prevent the class schedule glitches that plagued the start of last school year.

Last year, a computer glitch left 8,000 county students without class schedules for the first week of school. This year, schedules will be mailed and available on SchoolMAX, the school system's centralized software program for student records, possibly before the start of school, school spokeswoman Tanzi West Barbour said.