The biggest story this back-to-school season? No more smartphones in the classroom.

“The focus deficit is becoming so large right now. We need to bring that back,” Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, told NY1 last month. “We, we know from our own experience here in the city, the schools that actually have done the bans, we've seen the results — and they're all positive.”

Under a new state law, students will not be permitted to use smartphones or any other smart devices from the first to the last bell of the school day. It’ll be up to each school to figure out how they want to collect and store those devices.

The city will also be continuing to phase in a state law limiting class sizes. This year, 60% of classrooms in the city must be under the law’s limits

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