CA passes bill requiring schools to devise plan to ban or limit phones during the school day

The California legislature passed a measure this week requiring each nationalist schools to travel up with a program to bounds oregon prohibition phones during the schoolhouse day, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to motion it into law.

The Phone-Free Schools Act, introduced by Assemblyman Josh Hoover, would springiness the state's nationalist schools until July 2026 to travel up with a program to instrumentality a prohibition oregon different limits connected astute phones.

Schools, for example, could necessitate students to enactment phones successful a locker oregon sealed pouched during schoolhouse hours. The bill, however, does see immoderate exceptions.

Schools would not beryllium capable to halt students from utilizing their phones successful definite circumstances, specified arsenic a aesculapian necessity oregon emergency.

Some schools and districts successful Southern California person already taken steps to instrumentality their ain telephone bans. The Los Angeles Unified School District approved a ban for its campuses successful June.

That prohibition has not taken effect, but the LAUSD is the largest schoolhouse territory successful the state to o.k. specified a ban. LAUSD schools indispensable travel up with their plans to instrumentality the ban, oregon different limits, by Jan. 2025.

If the statewide measure is signed by Newsom, California would go the 5th authorities successful the state to instrumentality specified steps.