 Garland says with its enforcement actions, the Justice Department aims to protect vulnerable patients and defend programs funded by taxpayer dollars. Ryan Lucas, NPR News, Washington. The nation's largest school district is moving to ban cell phones in the classroom. School officials in New York City say they're finalizing a plan that would impact more than a million students across more than 2,000 schools. Administrators argue that phone usage has become a distraction for students in the classroom