Some lawmakers in Albany want school districts to be able to allow cellphone use between classes, despite concerns from Gov.

Backers of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed “bell-to-bell” ban on the use of smartphones in schools are flunking Democrats in the ...

Pushing back against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to ban cellphones from “bell-to-bell” in schools, New York lawmakers want ...

Should phones be banned from bell to bell? Or only during instructional periods? That’s at the heart of an emerging divide.

The New York State Senate has approved legislation introduced by Senator Joseph Addabbo to ensure that schools within New ...

In the senate’s one-house budget resolution, a response to Hochul’s proposed executive budget, lawmakers argued that school ...

Zohran Mamdani, Zellnor Myrie and Jessica Ramos are ping-ponging between New York City and Albany as they divide their time ...

As the state budget deadline nears in New York, Governor Hochul’s $13.5 million proposal to ban cell phones in public schools, K-12, remains a key talking ...

The Senate on Friday narrowly averted a government shutdown at midnight, passing a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure ...

Republicans are not the only lawmakers facing confrontational town halls over the congressional recess. Democratic lawmakers ...