{"id":114036,"date":"2025-08-02T22:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114036\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T22:06:26","slug":"new-york-schools-face-deadline-for-cellphone-ban-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114036\/","title":{"rendered":"New York schools face deadline for cellphone ban plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Today marks the deadline for New York state schools to submit their plans for implementing cellphone bans, following Governor Kathy Hochul&#8217;s bell-to-bell initiative aimed at eliminating distractions in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul is encouraging schools to develop their own strategies for storing smartphones while ensuring students can contact their parents during the day. She believes this initiative will foster a more focused learning environment and help limit cyberbullying.<\/p>\n<p>The state has allocated $13.5 million for purchasing lockable storage devices, such as Yondr pouches, which require a special tool to unlock. Some local districts have already adopted this method.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Guilderland High School, Albany High School, and Troy High School have submitted their plans to use sealed pouches. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niskayunaschools.org\/board-of-education\/board-policies\/board-of-education-policy-7316-student-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-internet-enabled-devices-during-the-school-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.niskayunaschools.org\/board-of-education\/board-policies\/board-of-education-policy-7316-student-use-of-cell-phones-and-other-internet-enabled-devices-during-the-school-day\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Niskayuna High School <\/a>and Shenendehowa High School plan to have students keep their phones in lockers or a designated storage area. The Watervliet School District has been cellphone-free for years.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Hochul said the feedback on the initiative has been positive. Schools have until the end of today to submit their plans for banning cellphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Today marks the deadline for New York state schools to submit their plans for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,23541,3070,69591,71765,9903,405,403,71764,5226,5225,5228,5227,71766,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,71767],"class_list":["post-114036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-cellphone-ban","tag-classroom","tag-cyberbullying","tag-distractions","tag-governor-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-schools","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-storage-devices","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yondr-pouches"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114961447916865630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}