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In Orange County, Florida, the school district implemented its own policy banning phones, smartwatches, and earbuds in 2023 before the state began enforcing one this July.
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 ...
Other large school districts, such as Los Angeles, were able to ban phones on school campuses. Florida banned cellphones across the state in 2023 and Indiana and Ohio passed legislation this year.
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.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul has reportedly been mulling a statewide school smartphone ban for several months. Florida, Ohio and Indiana have all imposed some degree of statewide restrictions on ...
India also does not have a law explicitly banning mobile phones in schools, causing enforcement to vary widely. The Central Board of Secondary Education and many state education departments have made guidelines prohibiting mobile phone use by students and limiting use by teachers. Urban private schools often enforce stricter bans, confiscating ...
Schools across the country are discovering that there's no perfect strategy for curbing students' phone use. Saying phones should be banned in schools is easy. Actually doing it is a lot more ...
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.