The Fentanyl Awareness for Children and Teens in Schools Act, also known as the FACTS Act, aims to address synthetic opioid misuse and overdose among youth. It includes a pilot program for education and prevention, the creation of an interagency task force, amendments to existing education policies, and initiatives for collecting related data and enhancing school health centers.

The section outlines the goals of the Act, which are to create education partnerships to prevent youth misuse of synthetic opioids, promote government collaboration on best prevention practices, offer school staff professional training on opioid dangers, and enhance data availability about synthetic opioid spread.

The section provides definitions for key terms used in the Act, including "classified school employee," which refers to various roles such as paraprofessionals and custodial staff working in schools. It also defines other terms like "Secretary," and "synthetic opioid," clarifying their specific meanings within the context of the Act.

The section outlines a pilot program where grants are awarded to partnerships aiming to prevent and treat synthetic opioid misuse and overdoses among secondary school-aged children. Eligible partnerships, consisting of educational and health agencies, can use grant funds for evidence-based activities such as education, workshops, and communication campaigns, with the program emphasizing collaboration, cultural responsiveness, and accountability through periodic reports and sharing of best practices.

The section authorizes funding needed to implement section 101 for fiscal years 2025 through 2027 and allows the Secretary to use up to 5% of these funds for evaluations and technical assistance related to the funded programs. It ensures that these grant funds will add to, not replace, existing federal or state funding for the same activities.

The text outlines the creation of an Interagency Task Force focused on preventing synthetic opioid misuse and overdose among youth. This Task Force will be led by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, include members from various governmental and non-governmental organizations, and its duties involve preparing reports and strategies to improve prevention, intervention, and treatment efforts for synthetic opioid issues in young people.

The section ensures that nothing in the bill restricts or changes the power of federal agencies mentioned earlier in the document from continuing their programs aimed at reducing synthetic opioid overdoses and misuse under other existing laws.

The section amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to add training for school staff, like teachers and principals, on how to handle and prevent the misuse of synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, among students.

In this section, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is updated to require local educational agencies to explain how they will involve teachers, school leaders, parents, and others in preventing the misuse of synthetic opioids like fentanyl among students.

The bill amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to require state educational agencies to support local agencies in preventing the misuse of synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, among students. It involves changing the order and content of specific subparagraphs to address this new requirement.

The amendment to Section 153(a)(1)(H) of the Education Sciences Reform Act adds a focus on the presence of illicit drugs, like fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, on school grounds, and examines how these substances impact school safety and student health.

The amendment to the Public Health Service Act allows school-based health centers to purchase naloxone, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses, and to start programs that address and prevent the misuse of synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

The section mandates that starting January 1, 2026, the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, along with other officials, must update the "Monitoring the Future" survey to include questions that track how young people use, perceive, and access fake or synthetic opioids, and whether they know if opioids they come across are counterfeit or synthetic.

The section instructs the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work with experts to consider adding questions to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey about the use and awareness of fake or synthetic opioids, like fentanyl. It also suggests including ways to assess whether participants know if the opioids they use or come across are counterfeit or synthetic.

The section mandates the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to evaluate the accuracy of a system that reports on synthetic opioid overdoses among high school students by 2025. Additionally, the Director must report findings and recommendations to Congress and funds are authorized for this purpose in fiscal year 2025.