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Schools that banned phones a few years ago have advice on how to make it work. CalMatters reports on how California's governor is calling for a statewide crackdown on cell phones in schools, an ...
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 ...
Officials in California, New York and Virginia are urging school leaders to restrict student cellphone usage. If the implement such rules, schools in those states would join a growing number of ...
While mobile phones are already banned in classrooms without teacher permission and banned in primary schools nationwide, mobile phone bans or restrictions in high schools (secondary schools) during lunch and recess breaks and during free time have become a highly controversial issue and laws vary in each state and territory, as well as by school.
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.
The idea has been rapidly gaining bipartisan ground in the states.
The laws regulating driving (or "distracted driving") may be subject to primary enforcement or secondary enforcement by state, county or local authorities. [1]All state-level cell phone use laws in the United States are of the "primary enforcement" type — meaning an officer may cite a driver for using a hand-held cell phone without any other traffic offense having taken place — except in ...
“Parents typically want phones to be used for the helpful tools they can be: parental contact, location, maps, perhaps light, safe, educational browsing and limited time on a few select apps ...