Pupil instruction: computer science: content standards

The law puts cybersecurity education into the state’s standards-review process, potentially expanding what students learn about protecting information and devices.

What the law does ​

• Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider incorporating cybersecurity skills into computer science content standards at their next post-2027 revision.
• Defines cybersecurity skills as techniques for preventing, detecting, and responding to attacks on information and devices.

Who it affects ​

• K–12 students taking computer science courses.
• Educators, schools, and instructional-material developers that use state computer science standards.

Context ​

The commission’s role is to consider the addition; the bill does not mandate that cybersecurity content be adopted.