Angelica Zamora-Reyes, 17, pictured using her iPhone at her Los Angeles home on July 2, 2024, is a senior this fall at Downtown Magnets High School. She supports a coming school district policy to ban students from having cellphones during the day. — Los Angeles Times/TNS
There’s little disagreement on what needs to be done: California schools must ban or restrict cellphones that disrupt learning.
A law signed by Gov Gavin Newsom mandates every school district in the state devise a plan for campus cellphone bans or restrictions by July 2026. But educators, who gathered recently with Newsom over the issue, say their biggest debate is over how to enforce limitations on a generation obsessed with their phones.
