The two leading candidates in the race for governor both want to limit the distractions that cellphones create in school — but they have different plans to get there.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) this week said she supports a bill that would implement a statewide ban on cellphones in classrooms, remarks she made as part of her campaign’s push to highlight the dangers of the digital world for children.

“I just think we should take cellphones out of classrooms. When you talk to educators, they are getting far more engagement from their classrooms without cellphones,” Sherrill said at an event at Kean University Monday.

Sherrill said if elected governor on Nov. 4, she would create a social media research center, similar to the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center at Rutgers University, where

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