The two schools couldn’t be much different, but they saw the same things. “You’d maybe have one out of every three kids paying attention to what the teacher was doing,” remembers Hoover High School Principal Qynne Kelly.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Cell phones could be on the way out in Des Moines Public Schools. Hoover High School was the first school in the district with a ban, requiring students to store phones in their backpacks during class. Tuesday night, the Des Moines ...

Using guidance from the Virginia Department of Education, the August County School Board will ban cell phones for students.