Soft lockdown, hard evidence. Meet your state's phone-free-school mandate with measurable compliance — no plastic pouches, no $30-per-student hardware. Built for BYOD schools in all 41 states with phone laws.
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41 US states have passed phone-free-school laws or policies. 28 states moved in 2025 alone. The research backs decades of consistent findings. Schools need a compliance signal, not a new pile of pouches.
41 US states have enacted K-12 cellphone laws or policies. 33 explicitly ban or limit classroom use. Your state is likely on the list.
Support for phone bans during class climbed from 68% to 74% year-over-year. Bipartisan, rising, durable.
One district. One year. $25-30/student for plastic bags that break. New York allocated another $13.5M in public funds.
Designed for BYOD (bring-your-own-device) schools. No hardware, no pouches, no lanyards.
Teachers generate a QR code in class. Students scan with the PFSM app. Device registers in under 60 seconds — no account creation, no IT ticket.
During school hours, students see a rotating compliance code teachers verify at a glance. Phones check in every 5 minutes. Tamper alerts fire within 15.
Live admin dashboard. Per-student compliance timeline. State-mandate reports exportable in one click. Board-meeting ready.
Real-time dashboard showing which devices are compliant, which are offline, which triggered tamper alerts. Drill into any student's timeline.
App shields during school hours on iOS (with Apple Family Controls) + Android (via native APIs). We tell you when a student bypasses — within 15 minutes.
Optional cryptographic check-in at classroom doors. Yondr-style accountability without the plastic. $0.50 per NFC sticker vs. $25 per pouch.
Six-digit codes teachers generate on the fly to grant temporary access to specific apps — calculator for a math test, a research browser for a project.
The compliance visual doubles as your school's communication channel. Announcements, bell schedules, daily news — authored in a WYSIWYG editor.
One-click exports formatted for California AB 3216, New York's Distraction-Free Schools law, Indiana HEA 1185, and every other state mandate.
Phone-free doesn't mean disconnected. PFSM gives teachers control and parents peace of mind — without handing students unlimited access.
Running a classroom activity that needs phones — a photo scavenger hunt, a Kahoot quiz, a calculator for a math test, a language-practice app? Teachers generate a 6-digit unlock code that grants access to specific apps for a specific duration, then auto-re-locks when time's up.
Every unlock is logged. Admins see which teachers use phones in class, which apps they unlock, and for how long — so phone-friendly pedagogy is visible and accountable.
911 calls, parent/guardian contacts, and location sharing are never blocked. Parents set the allowlist during enrollment. In an emergency, a student's phone works exactly the way it would without PFSM installed — no unlock code, no teacher intervention, no delay.
The #1 concern parents raise about phone-free schools is emergency contact. PFSM is built so emergency communication is the one thing that always works.
From London to Spain to New York State's 2025 bell-to-bell law — the data points one direction. Test scores up, anxiety down, incidents down, teacher-reported focus time up.
75% of NY schools reported improved ability to teach effectively within one semester of their 2025 law taking effect.
Read the full researchQuotes from public surveys — not paid testimonials. Every one has an official source.
High school teachers shared that students' responses to literature are deeper and more meaningful — they are seeing students actually reading and not just looking for Cliff Notes or quick answers.Western NY district administrator
This has been a game changer. Students have their heads up and not down looking at their phones. Students are having conversations with each other!Assistant superintendent
Schools be phone-free from bell to bell — from the morning when kids arrive to the end when they leave.Jonathan Haidt
We track every state law so you don't have to. PFSM is built for compliance reporting from day one.
| State | Law | Effective | PFSM ready |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | AB 3216 — Phone-Free School Act | July 1, 2026 | Ready |
| New York | Distraction-Free Schools (FY2026 Budget) | Sept 4, 2025 | Ready |
| Indiana | HEA 1185 + SB 78 (bell-to-bell expansion) | July 2024; July 2026 | Ready |
| Florida | HB 379 — Technology in K-12 Schools | July 2023 | Ready |
| Louisiana | SB 207 (RS §17:239) | 2024-2025 SY | Ready |
| Ohio | HB 250 | 2025-2026 SY | Ready |
| South Carolina | Statewide policy | 2024-2025 SY | Ready |
| Virginia | Executive Order | 2024 | Ready |
| + 33 other states with restrictions · Federal UNPLUGGED Act pending | |||
Roll out in two weeks. Prove compliance in two clicks.
PFSM runs in the background. Your phone-free policy just works.
Your child can always reach you. We can never read their messages.
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A 2,000-student school spends $50,000+ annually on plastic that tears, loses magnets, and needs constant replacement. That's LAUSD's $5.2M math, scaled down.
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