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Not Class Time

Not instruction

Passing time between classes

Not allowed

No. Devices must stay off and stored between classes, even though no instruction is happening.Q8

State guidanceIssued by the Commissioner of Education under the statute. Revisable by NJDOE without new legislation.

Your district can only make this stricter. Nothing in the statute lets a board allow more than the state guidelines do.

Why this one is disputed

The statute directs guidelines that prohibit non-academic use during the school day, and never mentions passing time. The prohibition here comes from NJDOE's bell-to-bell reading, which the Commissioner can revise without new legislation.

The passage that governs this period

Quoted, not summarised
FAQsInternetEnbaledDevices_July2026.pdfQ8
No. The bell-to-bell policy requires personal internet-enabled devices to be off and stored for the entirety of the school day. Students may not access these devices during lunch on campus, study hall, time between classes, and/or other periods during the school day.

The corridor between two lessons is not instruction, and the statute does not mention it. This sentence in an FAQ is where the restriction on it comes from.full text

Where this answer comes from

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Other periods

9 in the day
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The argument

This is one of the periods we argue about

The restriction on this period comes from NJDOE’s guidance rather than from the statute, which never mentions it.full text That means the Commissioner can revise it without the Legislature passing anything.s.2.a

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