{"id":347342,"date":"2026-09-15T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347342\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:40:12","slug":"city-council-to-weigh-limits-on-screen-time-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/347342\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council to weigh limits on screen time in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s growing scrutiny over the use of screen time and technology in New York City public schools, with some City Council members now calling for a ban on students using YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The push comes amid concerns about declining test scores and complaints from parents and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It also comes less than a week into the new school year, after Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels implemented new restrictions on screen time and a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for students in 2-K through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p>The City Council is holding a joint oversight hearing on Tuesday on the use of screens and digital devices in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Shekar Krishnan, chair of the Committee on Oversight and Investigations, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d to discuss the concerns and what the Council is looking into.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s growing scrutiny over the use of screen time and technology in New York City public schools, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2274,7473,67,2275,9,24,11,10,87,1103,200],"class_list":["post-347342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-ctv","tag-education","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-ny1","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}