📰 **Public schools in Texas banned cellphones. One district has already seen 200,000 more library books checked out**

Library book checkouts at one Texas school district jumped nearly 25% just months after a cellphone ban—but for many Gen Z and Gen Alpha students, the literacy crisis may already run too deep to reverse.

🔗 https://fortune.com/2026/04/30/texas-cellphone-ban-jump-in-reading-books-gen-z-gen-alpha-students-literacy-struggles/

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