With the new cell phone policy appearing to be working well, the Nevada Joint Union High School District Board of Trustees is looking into the possibility of an expansion. At its recent meeting, the Board directed Superintendent Dan Frisella and his staff to research the effectiveness and popularity in other districts in the state of a so-called “bell-to-bell ban”. Trustee Wendy Willoughby says it found feature locking phones in a container and kept away from students not only during class but outside of class for the entire day…

 

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Willoughby says the earliest such a ban could be implemented would likely be the 2027-2028 school year, to allow time for adequate input from staff, teachers, administrators, and students.  Meanwhile, she says feedback on the current classroom ban, which has been in effect for about two months, has been largely positive…

 

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State lawmakers have been working on a bipartisan bill that could mandate a bell-to-bell policy for K-8 schools but leaving high school implementation to local discretion. Also fueling these efforts is the rise of AI and the easy access to such tools that students could come to rely on in class.