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A 2024 California law requires the state’s nearly 1,000 school districts to create their own cellphone policies by July 2026. Several other states haven’t banned phones, but have encouraged ...
Gov. Newsom signed the Phone-Free Schools Act into law. It requires California school districts to draft policies restricting or banning student cellphone use.
The Los Angeles Unified School District, one of the largest in the country, has banned cell phone use during school days. Sacramento area school districts have also implemented policies limiting ...
Florida was the first state to crack down on phones in school, passing a 2023 law that requires all public schools to ban cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. A 2024 California law requires the state’s nearly 1,000 school districts to create their own cellphone policies by July 2026.
California has passed the Phone-Free School Act requiring school districts, charter schools and county office of education to pass cell phone bans or restrictions by July 2026.
Florida was the first state to crack down on phones in school, passing a 2023 law that requires all public schools to ban cellphone use during class time and block access to social media on district Wi-Fi. A 2024 California law requires the state’s nearly 1,000 school districts to create their own cellphone policies by July 2026.
Under current law, districts or county offices of education have the option to ban or limit cell phone use during school hours. The new law makes it mandatory beginning in the 2026 academic year.
Many of the schools that moved early to adopt such bans are smaller and charter schools, like Soar Academy, a TK-8 charter school with 430 mostly low-income students in San Bernardino, California.