Backpacks banned for last week of school in Broward, Miami-Dade

FORT LAUDERDALE – Parents and college students, pay attention up.

Broward County Public Schools is banning bookbags and backpacks for the last week of school.

Bags won’t be allowed in any respect public school campuses beginning Tuesday till school wraps up Thursday.

The district says the transfer is out of an abundance of warning for safety causes.

In Miami-Dade, bookbags are additionally not allowed beginning Monday by means of Wednesday – the last break day school.