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Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) RPF Cyber Cell has received and handled a total of 123 mobile phone missing complaints across the zone in the last one month. The Railway Protection Force ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would generally ban students’ cell phone use during school instructional time. Senate Bill 158 passed 30 to 2. It now heads to ...
Back on April 2, the Virginia Assembly approved SB738 and HB1961, bills designed to crack down further on cell phone usage in schools. Both passed with unanimous votes in their final version, a rarity ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Senate’s Education Committee passed a bill Wednesday that would ban cell phones from being used on school grounds during the day, after a delay to ...
The bill requires all local systems to adopt a policy in line with the classroom phone ban by July 1, 2025. The bill also requires school systems to adopt a policy for students to safely use the ...
New York will become the largest state in the U.S. to require a “bell-to-bell” cell phone ban in K-12 schools, Governor Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. The policy, which will take effect this ...
Kathy Hochul and the state legislature, districts have until August to craft their own plans for how to store phones, enforce the ban, and pay for it. But some details came into focus Tuesday as ...
MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky. (KFVS) - Two people were arrested in connection with a cell phone theft investigation in western Kentucky. Jerry Peck, 47, of Paducah, was arrested on two counts of receiving ...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — There is a new push to eliminate cell phone use at schools in Montgomery County. A group of parents, teachers, and staff in Montgomery County is now urging the ...
“These people weren’t going to be around forever.” The phones weren’t just a distraction. Teachers were exhausted from constantly policing the phone use, cyberbullying cases were on the rise, and ...
"I have witnessed the evolution of cell phones in schools and all the negative externalities with them," Valentine told lawmakers in support of the bill. "These are different from the distractions ...