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Adoption, governance and instruction of generative AI in public school classrooms.
The largest US district bars generative AI for teaching through eighth grade and companion chatbots for every student, which leaves five metered high school pilots covering 5% of enrollment as the only way in.
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The pause itself runs twelve months, which any vendor with a balance sheet can wait out. The tool-by-tool procurement review running alongside it is what decides whether the seats are still there afterwards.
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COPPA and FERPA gave the teachers' unions nothing. A clause inside a Microsoft contract gives them something different: a termination right and damages. The unions are now waiting on OpenAI and Anthropic to match it.
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Mamdani's one-year moratorium covers elementary and middle school, leaves five high school pilots running, and switches off AI features in software the city already bought. Vendors now negotiate in public.
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A New York Times investigation traces Microsoft, Google and OpenAI's hold on US schools to professional development rather than procurement. The pharma comparison is the load-bearing part.
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Charleston County wrote its own AI policy because South Carolina has not published guidance, and phase two is training. The demos that teach students to distrust models expire as the models improve.
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