D.J. Weddle didn’t think twice about Nebraska's new law requiring school districts to restrict cell phone use during the school day. It doesn't affect the district he oversees because West Point Public Schools has had one in place for over 22 years. “I appreciate the Legislature realizing that this is an issue, but I think you would be hard pressed in today's age to find any school that doesn’t have some type of cell phone policy,” the superintendent said.

Weddle, according to reporting done by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln data journalism class, is half right. For more than 90 percent of public school students in Nebraska, nothing will change come the start of school in August in spite of Gov. Jim Pillen signing LB 140 into law this May. Phones were already banned from class.

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