The Greenville Central School District hosted a community engagement session Wednesday to discuss the use of cell phones in schools. According to the district, the open forum discussion showed ...

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is offering districts tools to create and improve their cellphone policies ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul suggested that students would be safer in an active shooter situation if they were unable to use their ...

Critics of the bill said the idea sounds good until something like the tragedy at Antioch High School or even The Covenant School takes place.

New York’s top education officials are raising concerns about a potential school cellphone ban as President Trump’s mass deportation plans threaten to separate undocumented children from their ...

A bill to make it illegal to be handling or scrolling on a cell phone while driving has cleared a Senate subcommittee — and two women […] ...

Cameron Marvin, an eighth-grade student at Pelham Memorial School, noticed a huge change last September when the school ...

After New York Governor Kathy Hochul unveiled her $252 billion budget proposal this week, local state lawmakers appear to be ...

A potential "bell to bell" cell phone ban in New York State schools has received a warm reception from the legislature after Governor Kathy Hochul proposed the ban during her recent State of the ...

School officials provided the House Student Academic Success Subcommittee feedback last week on HB 379, a 2023 law that prohibits phone use during instructional time, prohibits access to certain ...

Governor Kathy Hochul's initiative to ban cell phone use by students during school hours is gaining traction among educators, but it is also raising co ...

Advocates and senators at a Statehouse meeting Wednesday said they were hopeful that 2025 will be the year the Legislature can finally pass a hands-free cellphone bill for drivers.