{"id":725799,"date":"2026-06-25T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725799\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:30:14","slug":"ky3-digital-extra-missouri-schools-remain-divided-on-cell-phone-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/725799\/","title":{"rendered":"KY3 Digital Extra: Missouri schools remain divided on cell phone ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; A 2025 Missouri law banned students\u2019 personal electronic devices, including cell phones. Many school leaders have mixed opinions on whether the law works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">KY3\u2019s Steve Grant and The Beacon, Kansas City reporter Maria Benevento discuss differing views on cell phones in the classroom. To read more of Maria Benevento\u2019s reporting, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebeaconnews.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/17\/missouris-cellphones-in-school-ban\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/thebeaconnews.org\/stories\/2026\/06\/17\/missouris-cellphones-in-school-ban\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2026\/06\/25\/ky3-digital-extra-missouri-schools-remain-divided-cell-phone-ban\/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>Copyright 2026 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; A 2025 Missouri law banned students\u2019 personal electronic devices, including cell phones. Many school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-725799","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\/725799","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=725799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}