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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.
A Student Voice survey finds college students are adopting AI tools while worrying about dependence, academic integrity, and career disruption — and broadly frustrated by institutions that still haven't published coherent AI use policies.
New York City's Department of Education is finalizing an AI playbook that prohibits using AI for grading, student discipline, and IEP decisions — setting a widely watched precedent for the nation's largest school district.
OpenAI's education division now reaches over one million students in Jordan alone and has launched a formal newsletter for educators, while NYC's 1,700-school system is releasing the most detailed AI governance playbook yet published by a major U.S. district.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule on April 13 making AI literacy a scored criterion in federal grant applications—the first time AI fluency has been embedded in federal education funding.
The US Department of Education finalized a rule giving priority scoring to grants that incorporate AI literacy—directly tying federal education funding to whether schools are building AI competency.
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.