With cellphones prohibited from the first bell to last, educators say students are playing board games during lunch, ...

Melanie Sepulveda, a Staten Island teacher, had her doubts about the new “bell-to-bell” cell phone ban in New York schools. In the past, she watched students drift through the hallways at I.S. 27 ...

LAST WEEK’S WASHINGTON POST investigation into the 2022 death of 13-year-old Jay Taylor in Gig Harbor, Washington, was almost ...

In the latest push to limit phone use in schools, the New Jersey Department of Education has launched a Phone-Free Schools Grant Program. This programming — announced in a memo Oct. 1 from Kathy ...

Approximately 2,500 students and staff were evacuated as a precaution due to a bomb threat at the Christopher Columbus Campus. The threat sent via a group chat triggered a major emergency response. At ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a “food emergency” across the state Thursday as the federal government says SNAP benefits will run ...

Superintendents in four Connecticut districts that implemented cell phone bans over the past few years are seeing improvements in a number of areas. State Rep. Jennifer Leeper D-Fairfield, co-chair of ...

There’s almost nothing that school administrators, teachers, teacher unions, parents, taxpayers and state government have ...

Across the country, schools are cracking down on cell phone use. At least 18 states have rolled out bell-to-bell bans, with New York calling phones "distraction devices." Teachers are praising the ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) weighed in Wednesday on controversial remarks made by young Republicans in a Telegram group chat tied to the Young Republican National Federation, a 15,000-member ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul retains just a five percentage-point lead against potential 2026 Republican challenger Elise Stefanik — and loses that advantage when likely voters first hear about both ...

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) looks well-positioned for her expected challenge to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to be New York‘s next governor after she came up just five points behind in a one-on-one, ...