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New York City and Los Angeles have imposed AI moratoriums through 8th grade as the 2026–27 school year opens, while Chicago school board candidates push for the same — drawing a sharp divide between urban districts restricting AI and those making it a graduation requirement.
Boston Public Schools will require AI literacy for all high school graduates starting September 2026, becoming the first major US city school district to make AI fluency a graduation requirement.
Boston became the first major U.S. city to launch a structured AI literacy graduation requirement for public high schoolers, rolling out AI Educator Ambassadors backed by a $1 million private grant and a curriculum co-developed with UMass Boston.
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.
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.
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.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced that Boston Public Schools will become the first major-city school district in the U.S. to make AI literacy a graduation requirement, with mandatory coursework launching across all BPS high schools in September 2026.
Boston becomes the first major American city to require AI literacy for high school graduation, setting a national precedent starting in fall 2026.