Texas Education ... comments about a statewide ban came during his testimony at a Senate Education Committee hearing on Wednesday, where he called the use of cell phones "extremely harmful ...

A proposed Texas law, House Bill 1481, would require public and charter schools to ban student from using their cellphones ...

Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty A high school in Houston has instituted a cellphone ban after a series of ... Houston Independent School District official tells PEOPLE are partly the ...

The legislation would provide up to $5 million to school districts nationwide to study and develop pilot programs to lay the groundwork for long-term cellphone bans. Get top local stories ...