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NEW YORK<\/strong> – “He doesn’t say a lot, he’s kind of quiet \u2026 But he is very focused on learning in school.”<\/p>\n Meet Frankie Focus, New York’s new mascot for phone-free schools.<\/p>\n Frankie Focus <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Hundreds of thousands of New York City public school students headed back to classrooms for the first day of the new academic year, greeted by warm weather and new rules.<\/p>\n Beginning this school year, Governor Kathy Hochul is requiring statewide, bell-to-bell restrictions on smartphones<\/a> in K-12 schools.<\/p>\n To kick off both the new year and the ban, Hochul introduced the students of M.S. 582<\/a>, The Magnet School for Multimedia, Technology, and Urban Planning in Brooklyn, to Frankie Focus.<\/p>\n “I’ve got a friend here, one of my best friends who I want you to get to know,” Hochul told a classroom of students.<\/p>\n Said friend has neon-green hair, bright orange eyebrows and thick-rimmed glasses.<\/p>\n The governor went on to speak about the new phone ban.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We’re doing this because we want to make sure that you can keep learning and in a distraction-free environment\u2026 You are going to be smarter because you’ll be paying attention more in school.”<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> This article includes information provided by New York Governor Kathy Hochul.<\/p>\n New York<\/a>Kathy Hochul<\/a>New York City Public Schools<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK – “He doesn’t say a lot, he’s kind of quiet \u2026 But he is very…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5371,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,112569,12632,3546,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-203993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kathy-hochul","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-schools-organization","18":"tag-organization","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115155295567855953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203993","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=203993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/frankie-1.jpg\")
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