Overview
- Saxony-Anhalt’s school quality institute LISA is preparing a statewide smartphone guideline expected in the first half of 2026.
- The education ministry says schools will continue to set on-site rules under house-rights in consultation with their school conferences.
- Officials indicate the approach will mirror guidance models in Lower Saxony and Hamburg, contrasting with blanket prohibitions in Hesse and Bremen.
- The forthcoming handout will outline the legal framework and provide age- and school-type recommendations, linked to a new decree on digitally supported teaching.
- Context for the move includes Leopoldina’s call to bar phones in schools until grade 10 and police warnings in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern about harmful online pressure on minors, while NRW reports about 98% of public schools now have binding phone rules.