VDOE issues draft guidance for cell phone free education
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On July 9, Governor Glenn Youngkin issued Executive Order 33 to help bring cell phone-free education to Virginia schools. Recognizing the mental health effects on children and the impact student’s dependence on cell phones are having in our schools, Governor Youngkin directed coordination between the Virginia Department of Education and the Secretary of Education alongside the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, State Health Commissioner, the Department of Health, and the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to help parents, teachers, and students better understand the effects of cell phone and social media usage on our children.
Governor Youngkin’s Executive Order also charged the Virginia Department of Education with defining what a cell phone-free education means in the Commonwealth and to develop guidance on policies for school divisions to adopt to remove cell phones from instructional time in our K-12 public schools.
View the VDOE's draft guidance here.