In two months, Oregon school districts must submit plans to ban student cell phone use during the school day, following an executive order by Governor Tina Kote ...

"We thought, if we can take away that distraction, that will help not only academics, but classroom instruction as a whole," ...

Phones will have to be stored while students are in school. And that doesn’t mean they can be placed in backpacks.

Many schools now require students to leave their cellphones in shoe-rack-like holders during class — or place them in their lockers or in lockable bags during the school day.

Ramsey High School currently enrolls 741 students. Under the new policy, Ramsey students in grades K-5 are required to keep their cell phones off and stored in backpacks.

Trustee Colleen Westlake said parents "one million percent" would be able to reach a child during an emergency at school without the student having their phone in a backpack or locker. "The ...

Inside Brockton High School, there are 4,000 Yondr cell phone pouches stored in a secure location waiting to be distributed to students on the first day of school.

The law, enacted in April as part of the state budget, applies to public schools, charter schools and Boards of Cooperative ...

Kids must have phones in backpacks/lockers all day. They survive and teachers don’t spend their day telling them to put their phones away,” one viewer said.

If a student turned their phone into their teacher’s lock box, you can pick it up between 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. today. This only applies to students who turned their phones into their teachers.

Trinity Christian Academy said it's on the forefront of a nationwide movement. Students start their mornings with a quick pit stop to phone lockers. "We were definitely upset about it.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (KY3) - Students heading to school later this month in Mountain Home will be greeted with new “phone lockers.” In today’s modern age, nearly, if not all, junior high and ...