Cell phone ban coming to these Madera Unified schools

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Five schools wrong Madera Unified School District volition beryllium banning compartment phones connected field starting Tuesday.

According to the schoolhouse district, each mediate schools and 1 alternate acquisition schoolhouse volition beryllium implementing the phone-free argumentation opening Jan. 14. The caller argumentation volition necessitate each students to spot their phones wrong Yondr pouches during the time until they tin beryllium retrieved again erstwhile schoolhouse is over.

School unit says students tin entree their phones "in an emergency."

The usage of Yondr pouches to unafraid compartment phones is not caller successful the Central Valley. Fresno's Save Mart Center enacted a akin argumentation when Bill Burr performed successful Fresno successful 2022.

The schools which volition person a phone-free argumentation starting Jan. 14 are:

• Martin Luther King Middle School
• Desmond Middle School
• Thomas Jefferson Middle School
• Madera Technical Exploration Center
• Ripperdan Community Day School

Madera Unified School District says the argumentation aligns with Assembly Bill 3216. The phone-free argumentation volition beryllium applied to Madera Unified schools by July 2026.