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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Just Set a New Standard for Classroom Screen Time. Your District Can Be Next.

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Just Set a New Standard for Classroom Screen Time. Your District Can Be Next.

In April 2026, the Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second-largest school district in the country -- passed a landmark resolution requiring specific, enforceable limits on student screen time, grade-by-grade. They blocked YouTube and gaming platforms on school devices. They moved to eliminate devices for kindergartners and first graders entirely. They required weekly screen time reports to parents.

This wasn't an accident. It happened because parents and community members, led by Schools Beyond Screens, made noise, built a coalition, and showed up. And it created a policy template that any district in the country can now use as a model.

We've made it easy to take action at whatever level is right for your community right now. Every campaign launched here adds a dot to the National EdTech Collective Action Tracker map and contributes to the national signature count, no extra steps required.

There are two ways to plug in below. We recommend starting with Option 1 first to build community, and trying direct conversations with your administration before going this route. A petition is most effective when it follows relationship-building, and when your admin already knows your community cares.

Ready to take action?

Not ready to petition your school board yet, or just want to see who else in your area cares about this? Start here. This is a simple, shareable community statement. Sign your name, add your community to the national map, and share it with neighbors and fellow parents. No confrontation required.

Ready to take action?

This is the full petition, a formal letter to your school board asking them to adopt the standards set by the LAUSD resolution. The letter is pre-written and takes about three minutes to customize for your district.

Why This Action Matters

The 2nd largest school district in the country just proved this is possible.


In spring 2026, the LAUSD Board of Education passed a resolution that most parents assumed couldn't happen at that scale. They directed the district to develop a formal Screen Time Policy with hard, enforceable limits on how long students spend on devices -- broken down by grade level. They moved to eliminate 1:1 devices for the youngest students. They blocked YouTube and gaming platforms on district devices. They required that parents get weekly reports on their child's screen activity, similar to how Schoology already sends academic digests.

This resolution didn't emerge from nowhere. It reflected a growing body of research, years of parent advocacy, and the political will of board members who heard from enough families that they couldn't wait any longer. The resolution itself cites the American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC data on teen screen use, and a 2026 jury verdict finding Meta and Google liable for designing their platforms to maximize addictive engagement in children.

Not every community is in the same place. Some parent groups are just getting started and want to find their neighbors before making any formal ask. Others have been at this for months and are ready to put something in front of their board. Both are valid and both move the needle. Below you'll find two ways to take action, starting with the lowest-friction option and escalating from there.

Your district has the same authority LAUSD has. Right now.

One of the most common things parents hear when they raise screen time concerns with their school is some version of: "We're waiting on state guidance." Or: "This is a district-level decision, not ours." Both responses pass the buck in ways that aren't accurate. Local school boards set curriculum and technology policy. They do not need to wait for anyone. Dozens of districts across the country have already acted on their own authority to limit student access to platforms like YouTube and restrict device use during unstructured time.

The petition you'll launch from this page is addressed directly to your school board. It tells them clearly: other districts have done this, LAUSD has done this, and we're asking you to do the same. That's not a complicated ask. It's a local community telling an elected body what it wants.

The petition is pre-written. All you're doing is localizing it.

We've built a petition letter modeled directly on the LAUSD resolution: the same structure, the same core asks, adapted into a form any parent group can put in front of a school board. When you launch this campaign, you'll add your district's name, a sentence or two about your community, and you're done. You'll have a shareable link in about three minutes.

Every signature collected goes into a final PDF with an auto-generated signature page, ready to print and walk into a school board meeting or email to every board member at once. No spreadsheets. No manual formatting. 

If you're not ready for the full petition yet, the community statement option above is the right starting point. It still puts your community on the national map and contributes to the signature count.

Here's exactly what we're asking you to do.

Launch your community's campaign using the template above. Share it with five people -- other parents, a teacher you trust, your neighborhood group chat. That's the whole ask.

You don't have to attend a school board meeting. You don't have to testify. You don't even have to be ready to make a formal ask. Start where you are, sign the community statement, find your neighbors, and share it with five people. If and when you're ready to go further, the petition is right there waiting.

The more communities that show up at any level, the harder it becomes for any school board to treat this as a fringe concern. Every dot on the map matters. 

Ready? Choose your starting point above.