{"id":105426,"date":"2026-02-05T00:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105426\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:41:10","slug":"school-phone-ban-passes-pennsylvania-senate-harrisburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/105426\/","title":{"rendered":"School Phone Ban Passes Pennsylvania Senate | Harrisburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania senate voted 46 to 1 in favor of banning phones in public schools. The vote comes after Gov. Josh Shapiro said he fully supported the policy in his budget address on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The senate legislation is sponsored by Democrats and Republicans. Schools and some students worry that a state law would put autonomy and local control at risk.<\/p>\n<p>But many teachers, parents, and other students say there needs to be a break from devices.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation now goes to the house- where there is also broad support with some concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Around 20 other states have passed similar legislation. Policy experts continue to link exposure to being online with mental health risks for children and teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania senate voted 46 to 1 in favor of banning phones in public schools. The vote comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2288,37,28,5929,30,29],"class_list":["post-105426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-bureau","tag-harrisburg","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-capitol","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}