Armstrong highlights benefits to students of bill requiring phone-free K-12 public schools

  • A student at Centennial Elementary gives Gov. Kelly Armstrong a hug after he gave her the pen he used to sign House Bill 1160, which requires North Dakota public schools to adopt phone-free school policies, on Friday, April 25. Submitted photo.
    A student at Centennial Elementary gives Gov. Kelly Armstrong a hug after he gave her the pen he used to sign House Bill 1160, which requires North Dakota public schools to adopt phone-free school policies, on Friday, April 25. Submitted photo.

    A new law requiring K-12 public schools in North Dakota to adopt phone-free school policies may be the most impactful legislation of this session, Gov. Kelly Armstrong said as he signed the bill today surrounded by students, school officials, legislators and First Lady Kjersti Armstrong at Centennial Elementary School in Bismarck.

    House Bill 1160 requires all personal electronic communication devic…