LAUSD cellphone ban start date pushed back to February 2025. Here’s how it’ll work [Video]

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — The Los Angeles Unified School District’s cellphone ban will go into effect a month later than planned.

According to the district, the new policy will be implemented in February, the second semester of the 2024-2025 year.

The district school board voted in favor of banning phones and social media throughout the day on school campuses, including break periods, back in June.

“These phones are a constant distraction the classroom,” said LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho earlier this year. “You know, the dings that go off, the vibration of the phone, the text messaging. I’ve been to high schools where you have five or six kids sitting around the lunch table, they’re all communicating with one another, but they’re all looking down at their phones, texting information to people right next to them.”