Social media has been studied at length and found to be bad for kids and teens. Anecdotally, kids can be emboldened by the ...

Others are now reviewing their policies. For example, in Stonington, middle school students will keep their cell phones in locked pouches during the day, while Waterford High School classrooms ...

BRISTOL, Va. – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said Friday his plan to limit student access to cellphones during school hours ...

The U.S. Department of Education will release new guidelines on cell phone use in ... Most parents believe school districts and individual schools should set these policies, rather than federal ...

The combined middle and high school has around 330 students. So far, Sullivan has not received any negative feedback on the new policy. Students who use phones to monitor medical conditions have ...

AND AS JOSSIE CARBONARE REPORTS, PARENTS SAY DISTRICTS WITH STRICT NO CELL PHONE POLICIES NEED TO BE CHANGED IN TIMES OF CRISIS. SOME SCHOOL DISTRICTS, LIKE THE MARTIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ...

The Aug. 28 document urges campus “leaders to plan to update their policies” before the 2025-26 school year begins. “The research is clear: Reducing the use of cell phones in class improves ...

Just last month, the state Board of Education approved a new policy guideline that recommends a cell phone ban. If students don’t have cell phones they can’t alert parents about these kinds of ...

It would distribute grants to school districts to buy locking bags for students’ cellphones, providing that districts create a policy requiring the phones to be stored during the school day.

Editor's Note: This article is part of a series taking a closer look at topics discussed by the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System (SCCPSS) leaders and Chatham County Board of Education ...

we have adopted a new cell phone policy based on the model provided by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Research clearly shows excessive use of cell phones during school hours can have ...