DeWine signs bill limiting student cellphone use in school

Schoolboy playing video game on mobile phone at lesson at school and hiding smartphone under class desk.

Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill limiting cellphone use by students in Ohio schools.

The Senate and House passed the bill within the last month. The policy was added to an unrelated House bill in a Senate committee and the Senate later passed it.

The bill requires public schools to create a policy limiting phone use as much as possible during school hours. It also requires the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to create a model policy for schools to adopt if they don’t want to make their own.

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