Now, the question for many states and school districts isn鈥檛 whether to remove distracting devices from students each day, but for how long.

States that have passed laws requiring some kind of cellphone policy now are considering going further and mandating daylong bans, even for high schoolers. The idea has gotten some pushback from students, but also from teachers and parents who say strict bell-to-ban bans aren鈥檛 necessary. Some say they worry about safety in the event of a school shooting or other emergency.

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But Foreman believes there were intervention points that could鈥檝e prevented her from experiencing homelessness in the first place.

鈥淚f someone in school had understood what I was going through, things could鈥檝e been very different,鈥� she said in an interview with Stateline.

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Like many rural K12 schools, the district has struggled to find teachers, and it sees the four-day week as a useful recruiting tool. It also wants to curb student absences, which tend to spike on Mondays and Fridays.

The district maintained its traditional five-day calendar in August and September. But from now on, with scattered exceptions, the middle school and high school in the Collins-Maxwell district will be closed on Mondays. To meet Iowa鈥檚 minimum number of instructional hours, the district will lengthen the other days during four-day weeks.

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Now, Hunter is a single mother of two living in Grapevine, Texas, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, juggling her unstable housing situation and early and late shifts at a local hospital where she works as an EEG technician.

In a heavily car-dependent area, getting her own kids to school is a lot harder. Her family has been able to use a school-sponsored ride-hailing service, joining a trend that鈥檚 quickly gaining acceptance around the country.

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The tablet near the dash provides turn-by-turn directions to every stop and checks each kid on and off the bus throughout her route. It鈥檚 helped her navigate the narrow roads and one-ways that stretch through one of the city鈥檚 oldest neighborhoods.

And from her phone, she can check on the status of her own son and whether he made the bus each morning and afternoon.

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Yet as states lose over required religious displays, many are working on another route to faith-based education by allowing kids to attend off-campus religious instruction. This year, Iowa, Montana, Ohio and Texas passed laws guaranteeing parents the right to have their children excused during the school day for free, off-campus religious instruction, often called 鈥渞eleased time.鈥�

Those four states are the latest of at least 12 that require school districts to offer released time religious schooling upon parental request, including: Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Wisconsin.

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Fueling these bans is growing research on the harmful effects of smartphone and social media use on the mental health and academic achievement of grade to high school students.

In 2024, at least eight states鈥擟alifornia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia鈥攅ither expanded or adopted policies or laws to curtail cellphone use in schools.

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The Trump administration announced last month that it would reverse guidance in place since 2011 that restricted migrant arrests at 鈥渟ensitive locations,鈥� including schools, hospitals and places of worship.

In 2022, the most recent numbers available, there were about 850,000 children in the country illegally, according to the Pew Research Center. Long-standing federal policy from the U.S. Department of Education鈥攂acked by the U.S. Supreme Court鈥攕ays that all children, regardless of their or their parents鈥� immigration status, are entitled to public elementary and secondary education.

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Her walks often involve snow and ice this time of year. But what they really involve is connection.

Marks, outreach coordinator for the Sanford schools, said a boy she walked in the morning went from missing 45 days last school year to missing just one so far this school year. Marks said his single mom is raising him and two siblings, one with a disability, and the family was struggling to get him to the bus on time.

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