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Serves K-12 schools

serves_k12_schools

Your app is run by, or sold to, K-12 schools or school districts, charter and private schools included.

scope role
in the registry since 1.21
365 laws in 57 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It is run by, or sold to, K-12 schools or districts, charter and private schools included.

This covers a learning platform, a student records system or a classroom app that a school or district runs or buys, from pre-K through grade 12.

It implies Serves schools or universities, so the law that binds every school reaches it too.

What does not

An app that serves minors with no school or district as its customer does not count: a school vendor declares it whether or not its users are children.

Often confused with Serves under-18s and Makes education decisions.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of 18 Nov 2026. The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of law	Laws	Jurisdictions
Privacy law Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach. Children's Internet Protection Act, the Internet safety policy of a school or library that receives discounts for Internet access, on monitoring minors' online activities and on unauthorized disclosure of minors' personal information United States School safety programs: no biometric information or required real-time location tracking, and developer privacy and disclosure duties California Texas Education Agency standards for the electronic devices and software applications school districts use, including data minimization and parental consent Texas	274	53
Digital accessibility law Make what you sell or offer to the public usable by people with disabilities, to the standard the law names. Basic instructional materials: legible print, closed captioning, and Section 508 accessibility of internet resources and digital multimedia programs California Texas publisher accessibility conditions for state adoption of instructional materials Texas Rule R277-469: NIMAS file requirements in publisher contracts for instructional materials and in the evaluation and substitution of materials sold to Utah schools Utah	52	27
AI law Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk. Põhikooli- ja gümnaasiumiseadus Section 20^1, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Teaching and Pupils' Personal Data Estonia Model artificial intelligence use policy: local education agency policy, training, review and certification, and the state board's default policy Utah Artificial intelligence policy in schools: department model policy and school district, community school and STEM school policy duty Ohio	17	12
Age gating law Check or estimate a user's age, or design for the children likely to use the product. District school boards, prohibiting and preventing student access to social media platforms on school district Internet access (Fla. Stat. 1003.02(1)(g)4.) Florida Minnesota Statutes section 125B.15, internet access for students: filtering of obscene material, child pornography and material harmful to minors on school computers Minnesota Massachusetts General Laws chapter 71, section 93, policy regarding internet safety measures for public schools providing computer access to students Massachusetts	17	17
Cybersecurity law Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline. Cyberattack reporting by local educational agencies to the California Cybersecurity Integration Center California Public school TikTok prohibition on district-owned devices and district Internet access Florida K-12 Technology and Cybersecurity Leadership Act, technology directors in public K-12 schools Alabama	5	5

In a declaration

A role says who operates a product, so it is declared in the product's own lexlint.yml and never in a component's ACTIVITIES.md: a library cannot make the product that uses it a regulated party.

In lexlint.yml

profile: activities: - serves_k12_schools

History

In the registry since version 1.21, 11 Nov 2026.

Added for Education Law section 2-d, duties of a third party contractor that receives student data or teacher or principal data (New York), Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, parental inspection of surveys, limits on surveys that reveal protected information, and local policies on student information collected for marketing (United States), Texas student information: duties of operators of websites and applications used for a school purpose (Texas), the law that turns on it.

In the glossary: Serves K-12 schools.

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