TOLEDO, Ohio — With social media usage among children increasing, so too are the numbers of distractions caused by cell phones – especially in the classroom. To combat this, some school districts ...

The Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia (FCPS) is launching a pilot program for several middle schools to prohibit students' cellphone access during the school day, starting in the 2024-25 ...

EASTON — The Talbot County Board of Education unanimously voted Wednesday to institute cell phone pouches at St. Michaels Middle School for the 2025-2026 school year, though it chose to hold off on ...

BOND HILL, Ohio (WKRC) - Thousands of local students began their school years on Wednesday, and things are going to be different for some of them in Cincinnati Public Schools. The district bought ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Ahead of the new school year, Clark County School District will roll out signal-blocking cell phone pouches to all secondary schools in the district. Grades 6-12 will have to ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — The Fort Wayne Community Schools (FWCS) Board voted in favor of the expansion of the Yondr cell phone pouch program after seeing success in pilot schools. Monday at the FWCS ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — As the school year comes to a close, Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) is assessing the effectiveness of cell phone pouches introduced to students this year. The district invested ...

OPELIKA, Ala. – (WRBL) – With the start of the 2025–2026 school year, Alabama’s new FOCUS Act is officially in effect — banning student cell phones, smartwatches, and earbuds during the school day at ...

Carson City schools will unveil new cellphone pouches to students during a news conference on Tuesday afternoon. The Clark County School District in southern Nevada enacted a signal-blocking pouch ...

BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - In Brockton, high school students are starting their first day of school with a new cell phone policy. The new policy requires students to lock their phones in pouches, which ...

NORTH SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The North Syracuse School District is gaining state-wide attention for being one of the first to submit its plan to the State Education Department that enacts the ...

As students across Virginia head back to school, there's one item they'll have to leave behind, or at least out of sight, their cell phones. A law, passed earlier this year, that bans cell phone use ...