New California law orders schools to develop policies to restrict student cellphone use

Students retrieve their cellphones from pouches where they are stored during the school day at Bayside Academy in San Mateo, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law that will require California school districts to restrict or ban student cellphone use, thrusting the state with the largest K-12 population in the nation into the forefront of a growing movement to get distracted students off their devices in the classroom and focused on learning. The law, called the Phone-Free Schools Act, requires California’s 1,000 school districts, charter schools...