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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 turned that resolution into a ready-to-launch petition for your school board. It's pre-written, fully customizable for your community, and takes about three minutes to publish. Below you'll find the template, some campaigns already underway in other communities, and everything you need to start your own.

Not sure? Check out the live campaign links below to other large districts already in motion.

Ready to take action?

Launch this campaign in your own community in under 5 minutes. The petition letter is pre-written and based directly on the LAUSD resolution -- just add your district's name and a sentence or two about your community.

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.

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.

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.

The more communities that run this, the harder it becomes for any individual school board to treat this as a fringe concern. What starts as a local petition becomes part of a national signal. A strong signal that shows districts everywhere that parents are paying attention, that they know what other districts have done, and that they expect their own leaders to act.

You don't have to attend a school board meeting. You don't have to testify. You just have to start the campaign and tell five people about it.

Ready? Use the button above to launch your community's campaign in about three minutes.