Students at the Studio City high school can still bring phones to school, but must use an app blocking distracting games and ...

A custom app blocks TikTok, Instagram and games during school hours — and alerts administrators when students try to get ...

There are exceptions to the rules. As an example, students can use their phones riding to and from school on a school bus if it does not interfere with the driver. Students can also access their ...

At about 11 a.m. on the second day of class at Kaukauna High School, dozens of students were eating lunch in the school common area. While the room was filled with the noise of conversation, some of ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The first days of classes this year across New York will test students’ ability to put away their high-tech habits in exchange for some old-school routines. But how will the state’s ...

As students across the country head back to class, one thing won't be coming with many of them: their cell phones. This year more states than ever are banning students' devices during school hours. In ...

Oregon’s new school cell phone ban takes effect Jan. 1, but some districts put it in place earlier. Most districts are ...

With a new school year just beginning, Oregon school districts are working to implement Gov. Tina Kotek’s executive order banning cellphone use in the classroom. The order prohibits students from ...

Platte-Geddes Superintendent Joel Bailey remembers an “eerily quiet” lunch room when his students were still allowed to use their cellphones during the school day. “We decided that since the kids are ...

By extending the restriction to school buses, it appears to go a step beyond the bell-to-bell recommendation from a state commission exploring the effects of social media usage on students.

As the fall semester comes to a close this week, public school principals and students sound off on the cell phone ban that ...