RIO DE JANEIRO — In Rio de Janeiro, schoolchildren are playing again "like in the old days", and their focus in class has ...

In Rio de Janeiro ... are starting the school year with phones banned from classes and break time after a new law signed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in January. Brazil, which has ...

SAO PAULO (AP ... searches for school, but to use it socially isn't good,” said Ricardo Martins Ramos, 43, father of two girls and the owner of a hamburger restaurant in Rio de Janeiro.

Before the federal law, most of Brazil's 26 states — including Rio de Janeiro, Maranhao and Goias — had already applied some restrictions to phone use in schools. As of 2023, nearly two-thirds ...