{"id":422494,"date":"2026-01-22T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422494\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:12:08","slug":"major-change-to-cell-phones-in-ohio-schools-now-in-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/422494\/","title":{"rendered":"Major change to cell phones in Ohio schools now in effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -Starting Jan. 1, 2026, a new Ohio law went into effect banning students from using cell phones during the instructional day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most school districts started the 2025-2026 school year with some sort of restriction on cell phones, but the law banning them took effect January 1. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The law does have some exceptions for students with learning disabilities or medical conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The policy adopted by each school district was required to include discipline actions for violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cleveland Metropolitan Schools had a cell phone ban in its negotiations with the teachers\u2019 union in 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Representatives with the union say the feedback has been positive, with students interacting more with each other and even fewer discipline problems from recording each other. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WOIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -Starting Jan. 1, 2026, a new Ohio law went into effect banning students from using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-422494","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\/422494","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=422494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}