{"id":1430153,"date":"2025-07-29T05:55:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430153"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:51:53","slug":"etx-school-districts-new-cell-phone-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430153","title":{"rendered":"ETX school districts\u2019 new cell phone policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-29_055442-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1430154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-29_055442-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-29_055442.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>TYLER \u2013 Earlier in the summer, the Texas House and Senate passed a bill that banned cell phones, smart watches, and tablets at public schools starting this school year. Now, Texas schools are having to implement their policies and guidelines. Our news partner KETK has compiled a list of schools with information on how your student will be impacted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketk.com\/news\/education\/list-how-is-your-east-texas-school-district-implementing-new-cell-phone-ban\/\">View that list here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Earlier in the summer, the Texas House and Senate passed a bill that banned cell phones, smart watches, and tablets at public schools starting this school year. Now, Texas schools are having to implement their policies and guidelines. Our news partner KETK has compiled a list of schools with information on how your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1430153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETX school districts\u2019 new cell phone policies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1430360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-29_055442-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-08 10:34:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/07\/2025-07-29_055442-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1430735,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430153\/revisions\/1430735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1430360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}