However, the New York Supreme court upheld the ban, according to an article in Ars Technica:

    [The presiding judge] noted that the ban does not infringe on parents’ constitutional right to care for their children, because “the right is not absolute and is only afforded constitutional protection in ‘appropriate cases.’”

Similarly,

    She noted that cell phones have been used for cheating, sexual harassment, prank calls, and intimidation, and that all of these things threaten order during school hours. She also rejected the suggestion that kids be able to carry cell phones but not use them, pointing out that even adults cannot be trusted to turn their phones off (or on silent) during movies and cultural events. “While the vast majority of public school children are respectful and well-behaved, it was not unreasonable for the Chancellor to recognize that if adults cannot be fully trusted to practice proper cell phone etiquette, then neither can children,” she wrote.

My take? Good for her. Cell phones, as much as we all love them, are disruptive in schools. This is one little bit of tech that has nothing to do with Ed Tech.