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The American Federation of Teachers released a sweeping AI policy platform demanding a Big Tech revenue levy to fund schools and banning AI-enabled screens from elementary classrooms.
The share of school districts without AI guidelines dropped from 43% to 21% in a single year, and AI policy has now surpassed cybersecurity as the top technology concern for district leaders, according to a new EdWeek Market Brief survey.
California State University renewed its $13M/year ChatGPT Edu contract — the largest university AI deal — covering 470,000 students across 22 campuses, over significant faculty and student opposition.
School districts using AI to write graduation speeches and personalized student acknowledgments are getting results ranging from genuinely moving to embarrassingly generic — exposing a deeper tension between efficiency and authenticity at milestone moments.
The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 documents AI's widening equity gaps across 38 countries, finding that teacher preparation—not technology—is the primary barrier separating effective AI adoption from expensive failure.
Harvard, Wharton, and MIT Sloan are restructuring executive education around intensive 2-to-5-day AI programs as employer demand for verifiable AI literacy drives enrollment surges.
The EU Council formally adopted conclusions demanding teachers remain at the center of AI-augmented education — setting up a direct policy contrast with US states racing to mandate AI tools in classrooms.
Google.org is funding AI literacy training for 100,000 filmmakers through Sundance — the largest institutional investment to date in AI education for independent and underrepresented creators.
UW researchers find teachers are navigating AI in classrooms largely on their own, caught between students who use AI regardless of rules and administrators who have avoided clear policy.
Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, and Missouri are advancing bills to require AI literacy coursework as a condition for high school graduation — the first coordinated wave of mandatory AI education policy in the U.S.
New York City parents packed a seven-hour school board session demanding a two-year pause on AI in classrooms — as the NYC DOE's AI guidance framework awaits final public comment through May 8.
AI can complete most conventional homework in seconds. Now schools are being forced to confront whether those assignments were ever measuring actual learning — and what they should be doing instead.
Rasmussen University is replacing Blackboard with D2L Brightspace across all programs, piloting AI-native learning tools in nursing education first in May 2026.
The NYC Department of Education has released preliminary AI guidelines for the nation's largest school system, drawing a firm line between AI as a teacher productivity tool and AI as a student decision-maker.
Idaho Governor Brad Little signed SB 1227, making Idaho the first state to codify a complete AI governance structure for K-12 education — including an explicit prohibition on AI replacing human teachers.
Over 400 Berklee students petitioned to remove an AI songwriting elective. The authorship anxiety is real. Removing the course is the wrong response to it.
Boston Public Schools is committing $1 million to guarantee every high school graduate leaves with AI proficiency — the first major American city to set that as a formal graduation requirement.
Boise State University launched a college course taught entirely by an AI-generated avatar — placing students in the position of critically evaluating AI-mediated instruction while learning about AI.
The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule on April 13 prioritizing grant applications that incorporate AI literacy — the federal government's first formal tie between AI competency and K-12 funding.
At least 17 U.S. states are advancing bills to restrict technology in schools, pitting state legislatures against the Trump administration's push to embed AI in American classrooms.