Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted that children are better off not having cellphones during school shootings and classroom emergencies because their devices could tip off their location to maniacs. Hochul’s ...

Seventeen states just flipped the switch on student cell phone restrictions, making this school year the most restrictive for classroom devices in U.S. history. This policy expansion now affects ...

Lawmakers don’t agree on much, but a piece of legislation that passed the Georgia Senate unanimously this year is House Bill 1009. The so-called "bell-to-bell" rule bans cell phone use by students ...

This year, public school, BOCES and magnet school students are expected to stow away their personal devices from the first bell to the last. Suffern Middle School has had a bell-to-bell ban on ...

Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas. State Rep. Jennifer Leeper D-Fairfield, co-chair of ...