This fall, the board for the Boulder Valley School District voted to implement a phone-free campus policy for all schools, expanding their previous policy to the high schools.

Across the country, state lawmakers are finding rare bipartisan ground on an increasingly urgent issue for educators and parents: banning cellphone use in schools.

Lawmakers easily advanced a bill Monday that would require Nebraska's K-12 schools adopt policies banning the use of cell phones and other electronic devices during school days.

Nebraska lawmakers gave resounding first-round approval Monday to Gov. Jim Pillen's proposed law that would require every school board in the state to ban the use of cellphones in classrooms.