On Tuesday, the N.C. House K-12 Education Committee backed a bill that requires school districts and charter schools to adopt a policy that eliminates or severely restricts student access to cellphones during instructional time. The Senate Education Committee is scheduled to take up its own phone ban bill on Wednesday.

"The whole point of the cell phone policy is to do as much as we can at being proactive about having age-appropriate, cell phone policies throughout our Virginia schools, while at the same time not using that as an excuse to suspend and expel students," Rasoul says. "We want to set up students for success."

House Bill 87 aims to eliminate or severely restrict student access to cellphones during class. There is a growing movement nationwide to ban cellphones in schools. On Tuesday, lawmakers will discuss adopting a more consistent,

A potential ban on cell phones could come to many Georgia schools. Eight states have already banned them and Georgia could be next. Lawmakers say that they have become a distraction and in some cases,