{"id":32963,"date":"2025-07-24T05:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32963\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:14:09","slug":"springfield-public-schools-explains-its-new-cell-phone-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32963\/","title":{"rendered":"Springfield Public Schools explains its new cell phone policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Springfield Public Schools is enforcing a new cell phone-electronic device policy for the 2025-2026 school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed a new state law prohibiting students from using or displaying any personal electronic communication devices during the school day. The law includes:<\/p>\n<p>Cell phonesSmartwatchesHeadphones Wireless earbuds<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Students must turn off devices. They then must be stored out of sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/07\/23\/springfield-public-schools-explains-its-new-cell-phone-policy\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Springfield Public Schools is enforcing a new cell phone-electronic device policy for the 2025-2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-32963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}