Lawmakers overcame two vetoes from Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who called the special session, and have yet to schedule any hearings on bills he introduced.

The vote was the second successful veto override after lawmakers convened Saturday for a special session called by Dunleavy.

The free program has been adopted by thousands of schools nationwide.

Lawmakers only budgeted $40 million of the nearly $800 million that districts say is needed to fix and maintain schools to keep them safe and operating. Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed more than a third of that.

The session agenda includes policy proposals, but lawmakers plan to keep it brief.

Under the new policy, high school students can only use cellphones during passing periods and lunch. Elementary and middle school students are not allowed to use their phones all day.

Yuut Elitnaurviat, the vocational center serving the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, is under new leadership after Executive Director Mike Hoffman recently retired.

The money for after-school and migrant programs was released the same week districts sued over the frozen funds.

The Anchorage School District, the Kuspuk School District and the Fairbanks North Star Borough are part of a suit seeking to force the Trump administration to distribute $6.8 billion in frozen funds.

Officials with the state’s largest school district say they’ve reassigned some staff to minimize the layoffs.

The money pays for programs including after-school activites, student supplies and preschools, Mat-Su district officials said.

With their funding still in dispute, school districts must submit operating budgets for the next school year. Many on the Y-K Delta have already planned for the worst.