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

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 ...

New York classrooms are dialing down distractions. Come this fall, all K-12 public schools in New York will implement bell-to-bell bans on student cell phone use, Gov. Kathy Hochul's office announced ...

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 ...

New York's school cell phone ban requires students to put away their devices for the entire school day, including during ...

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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

More than half of U.S. states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools, with more likely to follow.

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.