{"id":69140,"date":"2025-12-24T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69140\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T03:40:08","slug":"bill-targets-student-cell-phone-use-in-new-jersey-schools-new-jersey-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/69140\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill targets student cell phone use in New Jersey schools | New Jersey News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in New Jersey will likely be forced to put their phones down during school hours.<\/p>\n<p>A bill requiring &#8216;K-to-12&#8217; &#8216;public schools&#8217; to create &#8216;cell phone restriction policies&#8217; for students cleared both the state Senate and General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>That measure now heads to Governor Phil Murphy&#8217;s desk to be signed into law.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy says he&#8217;ll do that before he leaves office next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in New Jersey will likely be forced to put their phones down during school hours. A bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,529,36524,36525,742,915,14250,13842,36526,6984],"class_list":{"0":"post-69140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-bill","12":"tag-cell-phone-restriction","13":"tag-k-12","14":"tag-law","15":"tag-new-jersey","16":"tag-phil-murphy","17":"tag-public-schools","18":"tag-school-policy","19":"tag-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140","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=69140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}