The year ahead could be an opportunity for public schools to reexamine expensive and ineffective education technology vendor contracts and potentially reduce screen-based learning, many K–12 policy experts forecast.
Virginia Gentles, parental rights director at the Defense of Freedom Institute, an education and workforce policy center, said states and school districts in 2025 took major strides to rid classrooms of student cellphone disruptions, but there is still a long way to go to recover the loss of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic era now that nearly $190 billion in federal relief aid has been exhausted.
