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• Los Angeles Schools Announce Cellphone Ban Due to Social Media Addiction Concerns

  June 25, 2024

  Martha Garcia

  The Los Angeles Unified School District will ban cellphone use for about half a million students beginning in Spring Semester of 2025 over growing concerns of social media addition and its mental health effects on teens and children.

• Children Kept Out of School Long-Term After a Head Injury Have a Harder Time Recovering: Study

  February 1, 2023

  Martha Garcia

  Children kept out of school long-term after a concussion may face slower recovery times, according to new research.

• U.S. Schools Hit By Thousands of Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreaks Over Last Decade, Study Finds

  October 28, 2022

  Martha Garcia

  Thousands of outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis have occurred in schools and childcare facilities in recent years, mostly caused by norovirus and shigella spread by person-to-person contact, according to a new study.

• Roundup Residue Detected in 95% of School Lunches in U.S.: Report

  October 3, 2022

  Irvin Jackson

  Nearly all school lunches contain some level of Roundup residue and other toxins, according to the findings of a new study.

• School Drinking Water Lead Contamination is Widespread, Study Finds; Amid Revised Rules on Testing

  December 17, 2021

  Russell Maas

  A new study has found lead-tainted drinking water is rampant in Massachusetts schools, as the Biden Administration unveils a plan to replace lead-tainted water pipes nationwide over the next decade.