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Phone use in schools is not just an issue for students and teachers but also for other employees of educational institutions. According to the Governors Highway Safety Association, while no state bans all mobile phone use for all drivers, twenty states and the District of Columbia prohibit school bus drivers from using mobile phones. [78]
The debate over phones' place in educational spaces stretches back even further than NCES data measures—to the aftermath of the Columbine school shooting in 1999 and the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 ...
A group of high school student use their mobile phones. Across the country, most check-ins with middle and high school students are pretty much the same. The bans are going just fine.
Momentum is building for restrictions on students carrying or using cellphones during the school day. More than half of states have taken steps to limit phone use in schools, according to KFF, a ...
Several school districts in Texas have recently implemented bans on cell phone use during the school day: Grapevine-Colleyville ISD : This district has banned cell phones in classrooms across all ...
In the 2021-22 school year, 76% of U.S. public schools prohibited non-academic use of phones during school hours, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The ban was highest in ...
The law, called the Phone-Free Schools Act, requires California's 1,000 school districts, charter schools and county education offices to draft student cellphone policies by July 1, 2026.
L.A.'s principals and teachers need a policy aligned with current research, which shows that curbing phone use in schools leads to better academic performance and less cyberbullying.