 New York Governor Kathy Hochul kicking off a statewide listening tour yesterday on tackling smartphone use in New York schools. Hochul says the status quo isn't working for children and held the first roundtable yesterday outside Albany. This generation, more than others, is being subjected to distractions that never existed the way they are now. There's a screen flashing in their face. And she cites the results of a new Pew Research poll on phones in classrooms.