Statewide cell phone bans may arrive soon in public schools

Governor Newsom encourages the bans immediately due to cell phones reducing concentration and affecting academic scores and student engagement with peers.

Which States Have Banned Cell Phones in Schools?

In May 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 379, making it the first state to use the legislative process to ban cell phones in classrooms. Both ...

Take Cellphones Out of the Classroom, Educators Say | NEA

As of September 2024, 15 states have passed laws or enacted policies that ban or restrict students' use of cellphones in schools statewide.

A Look at State Efforts to Ban Cellphones in Schools and ... - KFF

In 2009, 91% of public schools prohibited cellphone use, which fell to 66% in 2015 before rising again to 76% in 2021. Cellphone bans are now ...

Map Shows Which States Have School Cellphone Bans - Newsweek

In 2023, Florida became the first state to legally ban cellphone use in schools with the law coming into effect on July 1 of that year. The ...

States Are Cracking Down on Cellphones in Schools. What That ...

Indiana passed a law in March that will ban cellphones in classrooms starting next school year. And as many as eight other state legislatures, ...

Why California and other states are banning smartphones in schools

Likely modeled after Florida, which became the first state to enact such a ban in 2023, the new California law requires all public schools to ...

Cellphone bans spread in schools amid growing mental health worries

Last year, Florida became the first state to enact a law that requires all public schools to ban student cellphone use during class time and ...

Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools?

Last month, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul said she intends to pursue a statewide ban on phones in schools from 2025 to protect young ...

Cellphone bans in schools take center stage amid mental health crisis

At least eight states so far are considering legislation to ban phones in clasrooms, following in the footsteps of Florida, which became the ...

State policies on cellphone use in K-12 public schools - Ballotpedia

Beginning with Florida in 2023, some states enacted laws or policies regulating student cellphone usage in public schools. Proponents of these restrictions ...

Schools ban phones, but do the policies work? - Axios

Cities, states and school districts are passing sweeping bans on cellphones in schools, aiming to get kids to pay attention during class and socialize with ...

School cellphone bans complicated by logistics, politics and violence

Roughly three-quarters of public schools already prohibited non-academic phone use during school hours over the 2021-22 school year ...

Signal lost: Why more school systems are saying no to cellphones

This went a step further than a statewide law approved the previous May that prohibits Florida public school students from using phones during ...

Nationwide Calls to Ban Phones in K-12 Schools

States and public school districts across the country are pushing for cellphone bans in schools, claiming that the devices cause major ...

Is a statewide ban on cell phones in schools realistic? - NPR

The Los Angeles School Board has voted to ban the use of cellphones in the country's second largest school district. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: LA ...

Momentum grows for cell phone bans in schools - The Hill

Cell phone bans for schools are surging across the country as educators and state lawmakers look to tackle learning loss and reduce ...

The nation's largest school district could ban cell phones by January

Adding to a growing list of school districts banning cell phones, the nation's largest could be moving to do the same as early as January.

School Cellphone Bans Are Trending. Do They Work?

Earlier this year, Florida passed a law requiring public schools statewide to ban student cellphone use during class time. The new state ...

If schools won't ban kids' cellphones, some lawmakers say, they will

Last year, Florida became the first state to require all its public schools to bar students from using their phones during class.