Three Milwaukee area school districts implemented new cell phone policies for the 2024-25 school year, restricting student access during class. The districts have reported improved classroom behavior, ...

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - Ariana Leonard's high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin. "Take out your cell phones," she ...

In what lawmakers say is the final phase-in of a cell phone ban, Ohio schools will now be required to have a policy limiting cell phone use in the classroom. The updated Ohio law, included in the ...

ARDEN HILLS, Minn. — Mounds View High School’s principal says a ban on cell phones in the class room is already paying off. Rob Reetz enacted the new rules ahead of a new Minnesota law requiring ...

Policies vary across districts, from phone caddies to requiring phones be off and away. Research on cell phone impact is ongoing, but educators cite distraction and social media concerns. Parents are ...

A student at Green Hope High in Cary puts away a cell phone as class starts. As the bell rings to start a new period at Green Hope High in Cary, students settle into Harrison Miller's earth science ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) - Florida students are heading back to school without their phones in class. A state law that just went into effect this school year is cracking ...

(WLUK) -- The state of Wisconsin is cracking down on cell phones in schools after a new law signed by Governor Tony Evers last week that requires school districts to ban phone use during class. Many ...