Starting this fall, New York will require all public schools—from kindergarten through 12th grade—to ban smartphone use ...

New York Governor Kathy Hochul ... the full ‘bell-to-bell’ to ban distraction in schools,” and indicated the measure could prohibit both smartphones and earbuds. In the past, she has not ...

Kathy Hochul argued that the “bell-to-bell” ban — which ... districts including New York City, school leaders will be required to create plans to store students’ smartphones “from ...

Starting at the beginning of the 2025–26 school year, New York public and charter schools will be implementing plans for ...

New York state is set to become the largest state in the country with a ban on cellphones in public schools. Gov. Kathy ...

ALBANY — Starting in September, students will be banned from using smartphones in school as part of the New York State ... would allow schools to develop their own plans for storing the phones ...

New York state would ban cellphones ... Hochul, a Democrat, did not immediately detail plans for the ban. Her office has previously said that schools would have some flexibility over how to ...

New York will ban the use of smartphones and other internet-enabled ... The "bell-to-bell" ban will include $13.5M in state funding to help schools lock away students' devices during class ...

The state budget for next year will allocate more than $13 million for schools across New York to implement their own plans for enforcing the ban and for creating their own phone storage systems.

New York will become the ... largest state to restrict smartphones in schools throughout the entire school day,” Hochul wrote in a press release announcing the ban. “I know our young people ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — After being at odds over a proposed cellphone ban in New York ... “All public schools will implement policies to free students from smartphones and other devices,” said ...