
NYC schools chancellor wants more money to enforce state cell phone ban — but about half of schools already have them
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. Hochul’s proposal in her $252 billion spending plan leaves it up to individual school districts to come up with…