New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday as part of her budget address that she plans to introduce legislation to apply a bell-to-bell restriction on smartphone use in schools statewide.
Many of the city’s more than 1,500 public schools already restrict cellphone use, but Hochul says a listening tour through New York’s educational system highlighted, to her, the need for additional measures.
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