School Tech Legislation

GOAL: To protect students, empower educators, and ensure that every classroom tool—digital or traditional—serves a single purpose: helping students learn in safe and effective ways.

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WHY: Online and digital products marketed to schools often provide unsafe, ineffective, and inappropriate experiences, and also collect and share student data without appropriate consent.

 

A lack of regulation has led to:

• Technology companies marketing commercial products as “educational” with no accountability.

• Collection and monetization of student data for non-educational purposes.

• Platforms with advertising, gamification, AI, chat features, and addictive design in classrooms.

• Parents being excluded from decisions about their child’s digital exposure.

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PROPOSED SOLUTION

School technology marketed for use by students must be independently vetted before being used in a classroom, for: 

1. safety;  

2. effectiveness; 

3. compliance with existing laws.

 

School technology to be used by students must meet minimum safety standards prior to being given to a student for use. Guidance includes, but is not limited to:

1. Prohibition of all use of screen technology in grades K to 5;

2. Prohibition of taking one-to-one school-issued technology home grades 6 to 8;

3. Prohibition of school technology that uses generative or conversational artificial intelligence (AI) in grades K to 12;

4. Prohibition of addictive design features, such as infinite scroll, auto-play, dark patterns, or other habitual functions;

5. Ability to opt out of school technology education.