Parents of students in Newton County Public Schools, Georgia, urged the Board of Education to reconsider its policy prohibiting remote monitoring of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) for children with diabetes.

Use of Mobile Applications: Some CGMs transmit data remotely to multiple devices simultaneously via smartphone technology using an application. A parent/guardian may request that Arlington School Health staff and/or APS Principal Designees use the application to periodically observe their child’s CGM data during the school day by completing the Parent/Guardian Agreement and Acknowledgement Form for the Remote Monitoring of Student’s Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM).

Prince William County Public Schools (PWCS) is set to launch a new divisionwide initiative at the start of the 2025-26 school year. This initiative aims to enhance the management of diabetes and other medical conditions requiring continuous glucose monitors (CGMs). To facilitate this, schools will be equipped with iPads as secondary devices. These devices will provide an additional layer of safety by ensuring quicker responses to CGM alarms and minimizing the risks of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.

Nearly one year ago Delaware Valley (DV) school board members in Pennsylvania were firm in their decision not to monitor the continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) of students with type 1 diabetes. As reported by the Pike County Courier last year parents continued to advocate for the school district to understand the safety and legal implications of refusing. The Western District of Washington recently released a letter from the US Attorney that required Highline Public Schools to monitor CGMs. Referencing this letter in tonights meeting, DV schools announced that because this letter has federal implications for all public schools at the “federal level", they would seek to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and implement the accommodation for their students with type 1 diabetes this school year.

Metro Nashville Public Schools Agrees to Settle Allegations It Violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by Discriminating Against Students with Type 1 Diabetes and to Modify Policies for Students with Type 1 Diabetes (Middle District of Tennessee, 2025)

“…agreed to modify the District’s policies, practices and/or procedures to permit the use of CGMs by children diagnosed with T1D who are prescribed such devices by a physician (or an advanced practice provider), to purchase or use existing equipment owned by the District to monitor blood glucose alerts transmitted from CGMs of children with T1D…”

Americans with Disabilities Act Investigation of Highline Public Schools Closing Letter from U.S. Attorney (W.D. Washington State, 2025): CGM Monitoring is a Reasonable Accommodation

page3 (3b): “For students whose medical needs require glucose monitoring and who use an FDA-approved CGM, school nurses, parent designated adults, and other necessary school personnel will be appropriately trained and available to monitor and effectively respond to information and alerts transmitted to a receiver, tablet/smartphone application, or other appropriate technology during the school day and school-sponsored activities as determined necessary based on the student’s developmental ability, individual level of independence, proximity to initial diagnosis, and/or age.”

“Caring for a child with a chronic illness like type 1 diabetes (T1D) is liketaking on a full-time (unpaid) nursing job in addition to the one you have. Diabetes management requires you to be on call 24/7, with your child’s life in your hands. And as T1D mom Kerry Murphy puts it, when you have a T1D child, “diabetes is an emergency all the time because every decision and every treatment can have real consequences.”

Whether you’re dealing with a failed CGM site, a dead pump battery or a case of the flu on vacation, it’s a disease that is never convenient.”

T1Dstrong.org/Erin Poche

May 5, 2025

Commonwealth of Virginia Senator Jeremy McPike discusses the study of his bill SB1303 (2025), focused on updating diabetes management in Virginia schools.

Some Chesterfield County Public Schools parents are asking the school division to let schools be more involved in the care of children with diabetes. They said checking their kids’ glucose levels is an all-day task they’d like school nurses to be allowed to help with.  

by: Allison Williams

“The board was alerted for the second time during the public comment period that a fifth-grade student, Eugene Jarvis IV, with type 1 diabetes, has had to self-monitor blood sugar levels without a school nurse’s assistance. The student is required to wear a continuous glucose monitor and carry around his own phone, which is synced up to the Follow app, a real-time sugar reader that helps track the wearer’s blood sugar.”

Pike County Courier
Melinda ComptonMilford / 22 Oct 2024 | 01:31

Nurses at some Loudoun County, Virginia, public schools will be able to monitor diabetic students’ blood glucose levels remotely this school year.

"The change is something parents have been advocating for, Loudoun County Public Schools public information officer Dan Adams said, but it took time to make sure doctors were involved and there were plans for safely accessing a student’s health information.

Scott Gelman | sgelman@wtop.com

August 20, 2024, 7:29 AM

Attorney Bonnie Roswig successfully advocated for a child with T1D who was denied services at their child's specialty school, and settled with the US Department of Justice to accommodate their needs, including CGM remote monitoring, under the Americans with Disabilities Act. "Authorities said the matter was initiated by a complaint filed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut by the Center for Children’s Advocacy “on behalf of the parents of a child with Type 1 diabetes."

Hartford Courant Staff Reporter