The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education has voted to ban student use of smartphones and social media during school hours and is expected to unveil an official policy within the next four months. The new rules are expected to be in place by January next year.
The policies would impact the roughly 429,000 students in the district. Previously, the school district’s cellphone policies had not been revised since 2011, and its existing social media policy was put in place in 2018.
According to the memorandum from the meeting Tuesday, the school district could also restrict any internet offered from allowing students to access social media on any device, including a computer.
