David Alan

39.8K posts

David Alan banner
David Alan

David Alan

@DavidAlanTV

Former 13News Now anchor. Proud husband, father and Steelers fan. Carnegie Mellon University, University of Illinois, The New School. Opinions are my own.

Hampton Roads เข้าร่วม Kasım 2011
2.7K กำลังติดตาม4K ผู้ติดตาม
David Alan รีทวีตแล้ว
POLITICO
POLITICO@politico·
Barney Frank, entering hospice care, embarks on a final act: Taking on the left dlvr.it/TSGpNv
English
125
114
502
523.3K
David Alan รีทวีตแล้ว
Kimberly Ross
Kimberly Ross@SouthernKeeks·
Cellphone bans are excellent and the results speak for themselves.
Karen Vaites@karenvaites

One year into cell phone bans, Dallas schools see 24% increase in library book checkouts. 👏👏👏 "Public school districts in Texas are almost one school year into the first statewide cellphone ban, and a North Texas school district is seeing positive impacts. Dallas ISD officials said that, district-wide, they have seen a significant increase in library book checkouts, which they largely attribute to students no longer having cellphones with them during the school day. "I started hearing, 'Oh, I'm so bored. I can't get on my phone after I do my work or during lunchtime,'" Hillcrest High School librarian Nina Canales said. "Once they lock into these stories, they don't seem to care about their phones at all." From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared to the previous year. A look at the library checkouts for the previous year: 2025-2026 Total Circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2026) – 1,084,837 2024-2025 Total circulation (1st day of school to March 31, 2025) – 872,430 Total library book checkout increase: 24.35% At Dallas ISD's Hillcrest High, students are following this trend. Canales said there were roughly 500 books checked out in the first nine weeks of the 2024-2025 school year. This school year, that number spiked to about 1,800 books. "That floored me," Canales said. "I had to re-do the report again because I was like, 'What, are you kidding me?'" Students felt the impact too. "Now that I'm busy with a bunch of work and college, I don't find myself missing my phone that much, even at home," said Yamilet Jimenez, 9th grader." By @laceybeasnews. @JonHaidt @safe_screens

English
6
24
138
4.3K
David Alan
David Alan@DavidAlanTV·
@MichaelWebert serving as the GOP whip in the Virginia General Assembly is bit like being valedictorian of summer school.
English
0
1
3
246
David Alan
David Alan@DavidAlanTV·
@cspan this ‘red carpet’ like coverage of the #WHCA is painful.
English
0
0
0
72