After years of students and teachers navigating varied cellphone rules, a new Colorado law requires school districts to implement straightforward policies for distraction-free learning.
DSST Public Schools—a network of charter schools in Denver and Aurora—and Denver Public Schools (DPS) both updated their cellphone usage policies for the 2025–26 school year, with more comprehensive guidelines in the works for 2026–27.
In DSST Public Schools, under the new policies, students have to keep their phones in their backpacks or otherwise tucked away when in class…