To establish a program to recognize elementary schools and secondary schools that have implemented a policy to prohibit smartphone use by students during instructional hours and a program to recognize local educational agencies and State educational agencies that serve such schools.
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Latest Action · July 25, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
The Smart Kids not Smartphones Act of 2024 would establish recognition programs for schools that ban smartphone use during instructional time. The bill directs the Secretary of Education to create annual, non-competitive awards to recognize elementary and secondary schools that implement and enforce policies prohibiting student smartphone use in classrooms, with exceptions for emergencies, educational purposes, and students with disabilities. The legislation also creates separate recognition programs for school districts and states where all their schools have adopted such policies. The bill requires the Department of Education to maintain public lists of award-winning schools and provide guidance on developing smartphone use policies and enforcement mechanisms, with no federal funding specified for the programs. These recognition programs would automatically end ten years after the law takes effect.
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