Vermont
CurrentAct 72 of 2025
Arrival-to-dismissal restrictions apply to personal electronic devices.
- Jurisdiction
- Vermont · State / DC
- Policy status
- Effective
- Implementation phase
- Current
- Requirement
- Required
- Grades
- All K-12
- Audience
- Students
- Learning evidence
- No student-learning claim
- Instrument
- Statute / enacted law
Dates & implementation
Starts in 2026–27; Act72 effective June 27, 2025.
A legal effective date can precede school implementation. This record documents policy intent or requirements; it does not independently confirm delivery in every classroom.
Exceptions & instructional scope
IEP/504, health, approved academic/athletic/cocurricular needs and McKinney–Vento circumstances.
Funding & support
Funding details not confirmed
Dedicated funding and current award availability are not established in this collection. This does not mean no funding exists.
Evidence & source location
Vermont 16 V.S.A. §583
Personal-device restriction; school-owned instructional technology is outside scope.
Review history
Reviewed against official sources
Source availability checked Oct 4, 2026: Source reopened. This is separate from verification of the policy claim below.
Source review date recorded in database: 2026-10-03
2026-10-03 — Carried forward from the source-linked baseline; topic, grade and evidence-type inventory reviewed. Individual source was not re-opened in this update. 2026-10-04 — Substantive source review: Reconciled the existing October 3 substantive personal-device audit (Text reviewed) with the research record. The audited model, timing and exceptions replace the unchecked baseline description. This reconciliation is not a new source reopening.
Record ID: VT-2025-DEVICE-001
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