School boards
Phonesinschool
19,199 hours of 11,963 school board meetings from 1,781 districts, read and checked.
Every quote and dot opens the meeting video at the second · 1,775 of the 1,781 districts have a page; 6 are read but have no page yet
We cover 1,775 school boards, the ones whose meetings we found on video, out of the nation's school districts. We don't have every meeting, even for those boards; each board page says which ones we have.
01 — First on our map
Haldane Central School District · New York41.46° N · 73.87° W
November 4, 2025
The school board discusses phones in school.
Our reading starts November 1, 2025. Boards may have talked about phones before that.
It came up every month.
From November to October, at least 1 in 14 board meetings we read discussed phones.
At the meeting · May 7, 2026
Davis Joint Unified, California
“My concern, Trustee Escamilla-Greenwald, is we've got inconsistency around cell phone policy, it's entirely possible we— in fact, I know for a fact we have inconsistency in how technology is being used in the classroom.”— Joe DiNunzio, Trustee, Davis Joint Unified
At the meeting · August 3, 2026
Susquehanna Township School District, Pennsylvania
“First, there are— there will still be personal electronic devices that will not be prohibited, uh, such as laptops and iPads. So there has to be a scope of conduct for the use.”— Keita Kalonji Johnson, School Board Member, Susquehanna Township School District
At the meeting · August 24, 2026
Indian Prairie CUSD 204, Illinois
“I have seen personally firsthand cell phone restrictions change how the classroom environment works. It's great for teachers, it's great for students, it's great for administrators.”— Andrew Bernard, Member, Indian Prairie CUSD 204
School boards · Nov 1, 2025 to Oct 28, 2026
Phones in school
- at least, of the meetings we read, discussed phones, Nov–Oct
- 1 in 14
- districts on the map
- 219
Bright dots: boards where it came up after we had read 3 or more of their meetings (68). Every dot opens its meeting video at the second. The map shows 219 districts; the issue page counts 222, because a district gets a dot only where we can place it and open its meeting video at the second.
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