ANN ARBOR, MI – Ann Arbor Public School officials have been open about the variety of steps they’re taking to curb distractions with limits to cellphone use in class.

But local Ann Arbor parents and advocates are making another push to encourage the district to take it one step further — installing a district-wide policy that bans mobile devices between bells marking the start and the end of every school day and not just during class time.

“Students today are more distracted, more anxious and less engaged than ever before,” said Brent Richards, parent of a local fourth-grader and teacher at Pioneer High School.

He was among roughly a dozen others who spoke Wednesday, Nov. 5, before members of the Ann Arbor School Board, backing a petition that asks for a cellphone prohibition that’d

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