US K–12 Technology & Literacy Policy Tracker

Method & accountability

Evidence first. Uncertainty visible.

What is counted

One record describes one distinct policy action. A single law can generate multiple actions. The database has 230 published records, including history and proposals, and examples from 17 distinct districts. Record counts measure the collection, not policy strength.

State colors reflect statewide evidence; separate blue markers show selected district examples. “Binding policy” includes requirements to adopt local rules or issue guidance; it does not necessarily mean a statewide ban. Required instruction, required course offerings, standards, recommendations, and optional support have separate labels. Policy documents do not prove classroom delivery.

What remains open

All 51 jurisdictions have the same 16-dimension evidence checklist: 188 of 816 cells currently link to published evidence. Other cells are research gaps, not negative findings. Proposals are labelled separately from adopted actions.

This is an AI-assisted, dated research snapshot, updated through published releases. The update log records actual changes; source dates and implementation dates appear separately. The map and state summaries show findings reviewed against official sources. Records awaiting review are available separately in the policy explorer. Complete research downloads retain both groups. The working research workbook may lag published releases.

Complete research collection (CSV)Download the coverage checklist (CSV)

How evidence is reviewed

Use research trackers and source registries to discover leads. Verify publishable claims against enacted law, official agency guidance, standards, or district documents.
Identify the actor, grades, authority, exceptions, legal effective date, and implementation deadline. Do not treat a proposed bill as an enacted requirement.
Classify the action and link it to the relevant coverage dimensions. A standards-development requirement is distinct from a requirement to teach students.
Preserve superseded records as history. Where a source or date remains unresolved, show the gap or withhold the claim. Older baseline records retain their source review date; a classification audit does not imply every source was freshly re-opened.

Review of current records and gap mapping covers the national collection, but exhaustive primary-source and district audits remain unfinished. The state profiles expose the same checklist used in the research sheet.

The research question

This work centers on K–8 foundations, AI understanding and student agency: what children are expected to learn, how expectations progress by age, and what helps teachers deliver them. Use restrictions supply relevant context. Curriculum leaders, instructional coaches and teachers are the primary audience.

Robert Dickson’s research is a useful reference for the wider policy landscape and overlaps in CS and AI literacy. This tracker uses its own source-linked records, grade-specific briefs and delivery questions; it does not reproduce his scores or classifications. Read the learning and agency study.

Author & disclosure

Created by Stewart Brown, who works in partnerships at Code4Kids. That professional connection is relevant to the subject of computer-science education. This tracker provides source-linked research and does not rate vendors or present the author’s employer as a policy authority. Research and site updates use AI assistance.

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October 4 audit: completed checks and open evidence

The interface and inventory were reconciled across all 50 states and D.C. This is a source-linked research collection. It is not an exhaustive census of every state topic or district policy.

51 jurisdiction profiles and 816 topic-coverage cells checked for references and scope.
206 policy-action records have a recorded substantive review against official sources; 24 await review. The map, comparisons and state summaries use reviewed findings. Reviewed means AI-assisted source review, with the review date shown; independent review remains open.
230 policy-action records in the current inventory. An action row is not the same unit as a law or district policy package.
All 153 original source URLs were checked: 127 reopened; 26 had retrieval problems. The log preserves the original result, even when a replacement source is later added.
Opening a source is an availability check. The substantive review date and evidence level belong to the individual record; carried-forward claims are explicitly labelled.
The historical register separates six selected 2026 state enactments and nine 2026 district packages from older policies. These event counts are not a national net-growth estimate. Download the publication release and audit.

Known open work: independent claim review; unresolved personal-device findings; remaining source repairs; district census coverage; and verification of local implementation, awards and classroom outcomes. Gray map areas are never an absence finding.

Reviewed policy findings (CSV) ↓ · Source-check log (CSV) ↓ · Current inventory (JSON) ↓

Original links requiring follow-up (26)

October 4, 2026

Latest research changes

PUBLIC-UI-2026-10-04
Public education design: white background, clearer navigation and plain-language requirements. Reviewed findings are the default; unfinished research is available separately. Rechecked six North Carolina actions against enacted text and corrected implementation dates.
AUDIT-2026-10-04
K–12 overview; state and district school-technology records reconciled; source availability audit; distinct dates and support; archive preserved.
IN-2018-CS-K12
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IN-2024-CS-GRAD
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IN-2026-AILIT-RES
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IA-2020-CS-ELEM
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IA-2020-CS-MIDDLE
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IA-2020-CS-OFFER
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
NJ-2020-CS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
NJ-2018-CS-OFFER
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
TN-2022-CS-ELEM
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
TN-2022-CS-MIDDLE
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
TN-2022-CS-GRAD
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
NE-2022-CS-GRAD
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
ND-2023-CS-K8
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
RI-2022-CS-GRAD
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
RI-2025-AILIT-REC
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
SC-CS-GRAD-001
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
IL-2021-CS-OFFER
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
OH-2022-CS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
OH-2026-CS-PROMISE
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
MA-2016-DLCS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
KY-2018-CS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
CA-2018-CS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
CO-2024-CSAI-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
FL-CS-OPPORTUNITIES
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
FL-CS-SECONDARY
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
OK-2024-CS-K8
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
OK-2024-CS-OFFER
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
UT-2019-CS-STAND
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
MD-2026-AIPD-001
Learning release: added official-source evidence with a distinct duty, grade scope and implementation timeline. View record
NE-2022-DCIT-001
Separated current K–12 instruction and reporting from the 2027–28 graduation requirement. View record
NC-2026-AILIT-002
Clarified 2028–29 implementation and standards/course-alignment scope; corrected state record metadata. View record
WA-2026-DEVICE-REPORT
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
OR-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
OH-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
ND-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
NM-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
NJ-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
NH-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
IA-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
DC-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
AZ-2025-DEVICE-001
Device release: corrected or clarified scope, source and implementation timing. See the jurisdiction device brief. View record
MD-2026-DEVICE-001
Separated legal effective date from the school implementation deadline. View record
NYC-2026-SCREEN-35
Corrected grade metadata to match the grades 3–5 action. View record
NY-2025-CYBERREPORT-001
Withheld duplicate of NY-2025-CYBER-REPORT; original source and history retained.
NH-2025-DEVICE-001
Resolved previously withheld source using the current official statute. View record
MD-2026-AIGOV-001
Added: AI Ready Schools Act — guidance and local policies View record
MD-2026-AIPROC-001
Added: AI Ready Schools Act — tool evaluation View record
MD-2026-AILIT-001
Added: AI Ready Schools Act — AI literacy standards View record
LA-2025-CS-OFFER
Added: Computer science — high-school course offering View record
LA-2025-CS-GRAD
Added: Computer science — graduation credit View record
LA-2025-CS-MIDDLE
Added: Computer science — middle-school exploration View record
LA-2025-CS-ELEMENTARY
Added: Computer science — elementary foundations View record
MT-2021-CS-001
Added: Montana K–12 computer science standards View record
MT-2021-AILIT-001
Added: AI concepts within high-school CS standards View record
PA-AIGOV-001
Added: Implementing AI in Schools — state guidance View record
PA-2018-CS-001
Added: State endorsement of CSTA computer science standards View record
GA-2026-DEVICE-HS
Added: HB 1009 — high-school device restrictions View record
GA-2025-DEVICE-001
Linked the later high-school expansion while retaining the current K–8 rule. View record
ME-2026-DEVICE-001
Added: 2026 bell-to-bell device policy duty View record
ME-2025-DEVICE-001
Archived earlier device rule after reviewing ME-2026-DEVICE-001. View record
UT-2026-DEVICE-001
Added: SB 69 — school-day device default View record
UT-2025-DEVICE-001
Archived earlier device rule after reviewing UT-2026-DEVICE-001. View record
OK-2026-DEVICE-001
Added: Permanent bell-to-bell device policy View record
OK-2025-DEVICE-001
Archived earlier device rule after reviewing OK-2026-DEVICE-001. View record
IN-MCCSC-2026-DEVICE
Added: MCCSC Policy 5136 — bell-to-bell devices View record
IN-2024-DEVICE-001
Archived instructional-time rule: district primary evidence identifies SEA 78 as the successor; exact statewide text remains in the research queue. View record