The legislation Hochul is proposing is both direct and vague: It requires school districts to implement a school-wide, full-day ban on cell phones but gives them control over how to do it.

The NYC chancellor supports students using magnetic locking pouches to keep their phones with them, which, if needed, could be opened with a magnet located in the school.

New York City’s schools chancellor complained that $13.5 million earmarked in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal to help ban cellphones is “inadequate” — even though roughly half of Big Apple schools already have bans in place.