Meta expands Instagram’s School Partnership Program to 17,000 schools across the United States. The company says the update adds new tools for schools and verified students to share information about extracurricular activities.
Quartz and The Next Web both report that the changes include hubs for clubs and sports teams, along with school-specific features such as Stories and Notes. Meta also introduces a student directory, which it says is verified through a third-party service, UNiDAYS. The Next Web adds context that the rollout follows Meta’s recent settlement with U.S. states over allegations related to designing Instagram and Facebook to be addictive for children.
Across the outlets, the focus is on the same core expansion and feature set, with The Next Web placing more emphasis on the timing in relation to the settlement, while Quartz highlights the specific product additions.
