Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed a new law to ban smartphones from public school classrooms starting this fall, making good on a pledge to keep the devices out of instructional time. “We know that phones impede a student’s ability to learn,” Whitmer told a crowd of reporters, students and educators on Tuesday ahead of a bill signing at Waverly High School. “They are by far the most disruptive distraction in our classrooms … designed to keep you scrolling, and teachers struggling to keep the