{"id":14887,"date":"2024-06-18T22:38:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/los-angeles-school-board-votes-to-ban-student-cellphone-use-during-school-day\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T22:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T20:38:21","slug":"los-angeles-school-board-votes-to-ban-student-cellphone-use-during-school-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/los-angeles-school-board-votes-to-ban-student-cellphone-use-during-school-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles school board votes to ban student cellphone use during school day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to support \u2018academic success and wellbeing\u2019 makes LA the biggest US school district to approve ban<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles unified school board passed a resolution on Tuesday to create \u201cphone-free\u201d days, making it the largest school district in the US to approve such a ban as more educators take up such policies.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by board member Nick Melvoin, the measure passed 5 to 2 and will be implemented starting in January 2025. Melvoin said in a statement the measure is meant to support \u201cstudents\u2019 academic success and wellbeing\u201d, adding that studies have shown smartphones and social media distract kids from learning and stifle their in-person social connections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/los-angeles-schools-cell-phone-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1acdcb308bd11f5a7f5888174d2b5dc16b85ec0b\/841_904_5159_3096\/master\/5159.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b7336ca2d7f138795c550eb0593f9ada\" title=\"Los Angeles school board votes to ban student cellphone use during school day\" \/>Measure to support \u2018academic success and wellbeing\u2019 makes LA the biggest US school district to approve ban<br \/>\nThe Los Angeles unified school board passed a resolution on Tuesday to create \u201cphone-free\u201d days, making it the largest school district in the US to approve such a ban as more educators take up such policies.<br \/>\nIntroduced by board member Nick Melvoin, the measure passed 5 to 2 and will be implemented starting in January 2025. Melvoin said in a statement the measure is meant to support \u201cstudents\u2019 academic success and wellbeing\u201d, adding that studies have shown smartphones and social media distract kids from learning and stifle their in-person social connections. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measure to support \u2018academic success and wellbeing\u2019 makes LA the biggest US school district to approve ban The Los Angeles unified school board passed a resolution on Tuesday to create \u201cphone-free\u201d days, making it the largest school district in the US to approve such a ban as more educators take up such policies. Introduced by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/18\/los-angeles-school-board-votes-to-ban-student-cellphone-use-during-school-day\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Los Angeles school board votes to ban student cellphone use during school day<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}