{"id":734197,"date":"2026-06-30T04:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734197\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:48:09","slug":"meade-school-district-implementing-locked-cell-phone-bags-to-comply-with-new-state-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734197\/","title":{"rendered":"Meade School District implementing locked cell phone bags to comply with new state ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.kwch.com\" class=\"google-source-button text-body btn btn-link p-0 text-decoration-none\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEADE, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; School districts around Kansas are coming up with solutions to comply with the state\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2026\/03\/10\/house-passes-bell-bell-no-cell-policy-kansas-students\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kwch.com\/2026\/03\/10\/house-passes-bell-bell-no-cell-policy-kansas-students\/\">new \u2018bell-to-bell\u2019 cell phone ban<\/a> which was passed back in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students in the Meade School District USD 226 will be placing their cell phones in lockable bags this upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The district said that it has partnered with Yondr, a company that manufactures magnetic pouches. Students in grades seven through 12 will place their device inside the pouch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students will keep the pouch with them throughout the day, but will not be able to use their phone. The pouch remains locked until it is tapped against a magnetic unlocking station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Related Content:<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KWCH. All rights reserved. To report a correction or typo, please email news@kwch.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add Us On GoogleAdd as a preferred source on Google MEADE, Kan. (KWCH) &#8211; School districts around Kansas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[15126,315939,211162,81509,61159,315943,153314,4412,153313,26761,153315,712,293629,315938,315945,165,315940,315942,315941,74,46004,315944,41413],"class_list":["post-734197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-12-news","tag-bell-to-bell-cell-phone-ban","tag-bell-to-bell","tag-bell-to-bell-ban","tag-cell-phone-ban","tag-cell-phone-use-schools","tag-kake","tag-kansas","tag-ksn","tag-kwch","tag-kwch-12","tag-kwch-news","tag-meade","tag-meade-school-district","tag-meade-schools","tag-mobile","tag-phone-ban","tag-school-cell-phone-ban","tag-school-phone-ban","tag-technology","tag-topeka","tag-usd-226","tag-wichita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734197","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=734197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}