As NYC public school students returned to class Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul had a surprise to help usher in the new statewide ...

Paarth Sarecha, the student ex-officio board member, raised an issue with the cell-phone ban that had been brought to his ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is refusing to disclose the costs of using a fuzzy “Frankie Focus” mascot unveiled last week to promote the “bell to bell” school cellphone ban, a “Sesame Street”-type character that ...

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NYC educators and mental health professionals are trying to help students adjust to school without cellphones. Just don’t ...

The much-discussed, much-debated and parentally panned school cell phone ban is a near non-issue for most students through the first few weeks of the school year. Proposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and ...

While most students across New York State are getting used to the new cell phone ban, Xaverian High School in the Diocese of Brooklyn does not order students to hand over their cell phones when they ...

The new statewide smartphone edict went into effect this school year — and students, parents and teachers are already giving ...

When Governor Hochul signed the statewide ban on use of cell phones in public schools last June, she called it a “distraction ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul insisted that children are better off not having cellphones during school shootings and classroom emergencies because their devices could tip off their location to maniacs. Hochul’s ...

Hochul said political violence is not new to this generation, but social media has made it even more dangerous.