This back to school season, more districts than ever have cell phone bans in place. Teachers and legislators alike say the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would generally ban students’ cell phone use during school instructional time. Senate Bill 158 passed 30 to 2. It now heads to the Ohio ...

As lawmakers debate banning cellphones in classrooms, schools across Northeast Pennsylvania take different approaches to ...

Kids are adaptable, and if you put a rule in place, they will find a way to get around it. Case in point: school cell phone ...

The pushback against phone use has resulted in 33 states, including Iowa, enacting legislation to limit cell phone use in ...

Connor Baranski has been teaching at Sandpoint High School for over a decade, slowly watching an unseen and unregulated ...

Three Milwaukee area school districts implemented new cell phone policies for the 2024-25 school year, restricting student access during class. The districts have reported improved classroom behavior, ...

As students settle into the new school year, Sunnyside School District is ramping up enforcement of its longstanding cell ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called for a new state law to limit student cell phone use at school. The Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Senate introduced competing plans to restrict student ...

Tina Kotek signed an executive order to ban cell phones in school on July 2. The order requires all public schools to adopt a policy that prohibits the use of "personal electronic devices" from ...

It’s been a few weeks since Utah kids reported back to school with their cellphones silenced and buried deep in their ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed an executive order Wednesday requiring all school districts to ban student cell phone use during school hours by 2026. The order mandates that every Oregon school ...