Georgia has officially passed a cellphone ban in high schools with the Distraction Free Education Act.
On Tuesday, Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 1009, expanding a ban already in place for elementary and middle schools to the state’s high schools.
The ban will go into effect in July 2027. Until then, school districts across the state have time to figure out how to implement the new law’s requirements, as the law lets schools choose how to keep phones out of the classroom.
Many metro Atlanta school districts already had bans in place, including Marietta City Schools, Cobb County, Henry County, Cherokee County, and Atlanta Public Schools.
“We didn’t take a state law to start helping kids, right? We knew we had to do something, which is why we started acting on this in 2024,” said…
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