Elementary
Relevant rules for use
Personal devices: Instructional limits
Effective July 9, 2025; applies in 2025–26.
Device scope, exceptions & sourceState profile · WV
West Virginia
Reviewed policies, grades and school implementation dates. District examples cover 0 distinct districts; it is not a statewide implementation survey.
Rules for use: affected grades and timing
Personal devices · statewide finding
- Elementary
- Instructional limits
- Middle
- Instructional limits
- High
- Instructional limits
Restrictions apply in classroom settings during instructional time, with local enforcement procedures.
Effective July 9, 2025; applies in 2025–26.
Exceptions & source ↗School devices, screen time and student AI
No reviewed policy is available here for these topics yet. Further research appears in the policy explorer.
Learning & relevant rules for use
What changes by age?
Middle
Relevant rules for use
Personal devices: Instructional limits
Effective July 9, 2025; applies in 2025–26.
Device scope, exceptions & sourceHigh
Computer science
Upcoming · Students must receive instruction
Requires one high-school computer-science credit for graduation, available in grades 8–12, with approved substitution and delivery options.
Beginning with grade9 entrants in 2027–28, one full CS credit is required. May be completed in grades8–12; approved courses and Policy2510 implementation are governed by WVDE/WVBE guidance.
Source & datesRelevant rules for use
Personal devices: Instructional limits
Effective July 9, 2025; applies in 2025–26.
Device scope, exceptions & sourceTeacher capacity, funding & delivery
No reviewed support program is listed here yet. Individual policy details include any documented funding or training provision.
Questions for a district curriculum meeting
- Which students receive instruction, in which grades and subjects, and for how much time?
- What sequence connects computing concepts, data, AI understanding and digital judgment?
- Who teaches it, and what training, preparation time and accessible materials do they receive?
- Which documented funding or services can support delivery, and what remains a local budget decision?
- What student work demonstrates understanding? Check who participates and who is missing.
These are Stewart Brown’s planning questions, not additional legal requirements.
Reviewed policy findings, district examples & history (4 records)
Restrictions
Current evidence indexed
1 action in this collection
Governance
Current evidence indexed
1 action in this collection
Learning
Current evidence indexed
1 action in this collection
Current statewide policies
West Virginia· State / DCCurrent
HB 2003
Restrictions apply in classroom settings during instructional time, with local enforcement procedures.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 3, 2026
Personal devices
- Requirement
- Required with local discretion
- Grades
- All K-12
- Learning evidence
- No student-learning claim
- Legal start
- Jul 9, 2025
- School implementation
- Effective July 9, 2025; applies in 2025–26.
West Virginia· State / DCCurrent
West Virginia AI guidance, Version 1.2
Provides statewide considerations and implementation resources for responsible AI use by educators, students and school systems.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
AI governance
- Requirement
- Recommended
- Grades
- All K-12
- Learning evidence
- No student-learning claim
- School implementation
- March 2025 Version 1.2 guidance supports local implementation; advisory, not a uniform statewide AI ban.
West Virginia· State / DCCurrent
SB 466 / W. Va. Code §18-2-44
Requires county policies providing the SWAT education program at least annually in grades 3–12, covering safe social networking, privacy, copyright, communication with trusted adults, cyberbullying, exploitation and trafficking risks.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
Social-media literacy
- Requirement
- Required
- Grades
- Grades3–12 at least once each school year; parental opt-out permitted.
- Learning evidence
- Student instruction required
- School implementation
- Passed March 8, 2024, in effect 90 days after passage. County school boards must implement annual grades3–12 instruction beginning in 2025–26.
Upcoming requirements
West Virginia· State / DCUpcoming
HB 2411 / W. Va. Code §18-2-9
Requires one high-school computer-science credit for graduation, available in grades 8–12, with approved substitution and delivery options.
Reviewed against official sources · Oct 4, 2026
Computer science
- Requirement
- Required
- Grades
- Students entering grade9 in 2027–28; credit may be earned in grades8–12.
- Learning evidence
- Student instruction required
- Adopted / approved
- Apr 11, 2025
- Legal start
- Jul 10, 2025
- School implementation
- Beginning with grade9 entrants in 2027–28, one full CS credit is required. May be completed in grades8–12; approved courses and Policy2510 implementation are governed by WVDE/WVBE guidance.
Proposals under consideration
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Selected district examples
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Historical records
No records in this section have been published. This is an evidence gap in the collection, not a determination that no relevant action exists.
Evidence coverage & remaining research
Consistent 16-dimension checklist
Coverage & remaining research
Inventory reviewed October 3, 2026. 4/16 dimensions have published evidence of any status. Every dimension remains open to additional sources and superseding actions.
| Dimension | Current statewide evidence | Other published evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices | 1 linked action | 0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical |
| School-issued devices | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Screen time | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Student AI | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Staff AI | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| AI governance | 1 linked action | 0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical |
| Social media / network | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Privacy / cybersecurity | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| AI literacy | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Computer science | Not yet established | 0 current district actions · 1 future, proposed, or historical |
| Digital literacy | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Media literacy | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Digital citizenship | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Cybersecurity literacy | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Data literacy | Not yet established | Research gap · no absence conclusion |
| Social-media literacy | 1 linked action | 0 current district actions · 0 future, proposed, or historical |
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