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States move to limit classroom screen time
Several states now cap classroom screen use for young students, while districts adopt grade-based limits and parents push for tools to curb device hopping.
- This year, four states enacted laws restricting screen time for students through fifth grade, while the Los Angeles Unified School District implemented systemwide, grade-specific instructional limits.
- Policymakers are increasingly prioritizing screen time limits following Surgeon General advisories on social media risks and American Psychological Association reports linking frequent usage to poor student mental health.
- Democratic Rep. George Whitesides introduced the bipartisan TOTAL Screen Time Act to help parents enforce usage limits across devices and prevent "device hopping." Whitesides called it a "commonsense, bipartisan fix to a problem nearly every parent" has faced.
- The Software and Information Industry Association labeled the federal bill an "unfunded mandate," arguing it increases administrative burdens and undermines workforce readiness.
- Amherst Regional High School senior Inanna Balkin emphasized that schools should foster responsible habits rather than simply removing access to technology, noting that learning to manage usage is "really important for students.
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