Pablonius Monk 🇺🇦Students swap screens for stories. Dallas ISD book checkouts soar amid state's first cellphone ban for public schools 📚 🔕 📱
"I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all."
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Students swap screens for stories. Dallas ISD book checkouts soar amid state's first cellphone ban for public schools
From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year.
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