Early next year the Los Angeles Unified School District will become one of the largest school districts in the country to ban cell phones on campus. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho will roll out a district-wide smartphone ban after the LAUSD school board passed a resolution calling for the prohibition.

Long Island parents strongly support a school ban on cell phone use and curbing social media companies. That’s according to the latest Oceanside-based Mount Sinai South Nassau “Truth in Medicine Poll.”

School cell phone bans are spreading. But a recent National Parents Union survey shows emergencies like a recent school shooting in Georgia is a top parental concern about such prohibitions. Some have devised workarounds.

The U.S. Department of Education will release new guidelines on cell phone use in schools in October, as a growing number of states and localities adopt bans.

The Virginia Department of Education is releasing its final guidance on creating cell phone-free education in the Commonwealth on Monday, and you have until Sunday to provide feedback.

A school has introduced a ban on smartphones in an attempt to remove "constant access to the toxicity" of social media. Teachers at Boston Grammar School said since it introduced its Digital Detox in the summer term "noise has increased" because students are talking more.

VDOE says its goal is to provide a distraction-free environment to allow kids to focus on learning and reduce the alarming mental health crisis from cell phones and social media.