OPELIKA, Ala. – (WRBL) – With the start of the 2025–2026 school year, Alabama’s new FOCUS Act is officially in effect — banning student cell phones, smartwatches, and earbuds during the school day at ...

GOP lawmakers have introduced bills that would mandate that phones be securely stored at school or left at home during the whole school day.

It's now illegal for North Carolina public school students to have their phones on in class unless there's an emergency or they get permission from the school. Gov. Josh Stein signed a bill into law ...

The assignment for Kathryn Perrotta’s fourth-graders was to learn about density by building a “neutral buoyancy” contraption that wouldn’t sink or float. The St. Paul summer school students turned to ...

If this university truly wants to support student success, it must act now by implementing stronger classroom phone policies.

CHARLOTTE — Students across North Carolina will have to keep their cellphones in backpacks this school year. Gov. Josh Stein has signed House Bill 959 into law, which will restrict the use of ...

(TNS) — It’s now illegal for North Carolina public school students to have their phones on in class unless there’s an emergency or they get permission from the school. Gov. Josh Stein signed a bill ...

Jamaal Wellman places his phone in a caddy at the start of a seventh-grade social studies class at Rolesville Middle School on March 27, 2024. North Carolina lawmakers are poised to pass a bill that ...

(TNS) — As lawmakers debate banning cellphones in classrooms, schools across Northeast Pennsylvania take different approaches to phones in their buildings. Across the country, 35 states have laws or ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. It’s now illegal for North Carolina public school students to have their phones on in class unless there’s an emergency or they get ...

Then State Attorney General Josh Stein answers questions during a town hall on the impacts of social media on youth at Athens Drive High School in Raleigh on March 11, 2024. Now governor, Stein signed ...