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Analysis

Student Cellphone Restrictions

Connecticut’s State Board of Education adopted updated guidance recommending bell-to-bell limits on students’ personal devices and addressing classroom screen time, without imposing a statewide mandate. Nationally, CoSN released guidance for district leaders on screen time policies and endorsed federal guidance supporting local technology decisions. These updates distinguish restrictions on personal or recreational device use from technology used for teaching and learning.

Based on 6 K-12 News stories

2

Stories · 30 days

6

Stories · 90 days

5

States

5

Sources

-33% vs previous 30 days

Recurring themes

Screen Time3Local Decision-Making3Federal Guidance2Classroom Screen Time2

Movement over time

Rolling 30-day story count, one bar per day since tracking began (2026-09-22).

Where it is happening

AK
ME1
WI
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA1
RI
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT1
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA1
HI
TX
FL

Shading reflects how many published stories mention each state. Blank states have no stories in the database yet.

Who is reporting it

  • CoSN2 stories
  • Maine Department of Education1 story
  • Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education1 story
  • DeKalb County School District1 story
  • Connecticut State Department of Education1 story

How this analysis is created

Every story K-12 News publishes is read and tagged with its topic, state, organisations and key terms. Stories describing the same development are grouped, then counted over time to show what is growing, holding steady or fading. Figures come from the stories themselves and each analysis links to the original reporting. Where there are too few stories to compare periods fairly, we say so rather than showing a percentage.

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