A San Mateo school is helping students focus in the classroom by locking their cell phones away. A San Mateo school is helping students focus in the classroom by locking their cell phones away.

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. By keeping phones out of schools, the bill would help ...

Jamaal Wellman places his phone in a caddy at the start of a seventh-grade social studies class at Rolesville Middle School on March 27, 2024. File photo. Wake schools are tightening their cell phone ...

Cellphones will need to be turned off -- and not simply silenced -- under a revision to the Wake school board's cellphone policy approved on Tuesday. The board approved, without opposition, that and a ...