North Dakota receives a grade ‘A’ for school cellphone ban policyNORTH DAKOTA (KVRR) — North Dakota has been awarded a grade of “A” for its statewide law banning the use of cellphones in schools. The grade comes from the Phone-Free Schools State Report Card, which has ranked all fifty states in the nation for phone-free schools. The report ranks North Dakota as the leading state in the nation, after the cellphone ban took effect in schools in the fall of 2025. “40,000 teachers found that the stricter the policy and the longer kids can not access their phones, the happier the teacher. This Report Card is the first comprehensive assessment of how laws or executive orders in every state and Washington, D.C., measure up.