Bills & policies

University of Alaska System article explaining the five principles, including authenticity, discernment, and accountability, behind its recently published guidelines for using generative AI in communications work. The principles call for human oversight of AI output and hold individuals and the institution responsible for what is published.

Requires public school employees and contractors performing services in public schools, including charter and renaissance schools, to be natural persons, covering positions such as teachers, administrators, counselors, and aides. The sponsor's statement says the intent is that interactions between students and school personnel be conducted by human beings rather than artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Extends school bullying and cyberbullying policy requirements to nonpublic schools and defines cyberbullying to include the use of artificial intelligence-generated or modified media.

Provisions

• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Sets age-appropriate design standards for AI chatbots used by minors, requiring a non-personified default setting and parental controls, and gives educational agencies and authorized educators control over chatbot settings in school-managed deployments.

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• Protections for minors using AI chatbots

A template board policy from the Oklahoma State Department of Education, updated October 2026, that districts can adapt to meet the Oklahoma Responsible Technology in Schools Act. It covers definitions, roles, educator oversight, data privacy, parent opt-out, annual review, and an implementation deadline of the start of the 2027-2028 school year.

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission, at the next revision of the health curriculum framework, to consider including content on human trafficking and online safety, including how to stay safe from sexually exploitative materials and deepfakes online, in an age-appropriate progression from kindergarten through grade 12. Requires the State Department of Education to maintain related information and educator training resources.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Requires the California Community Colleges chancellor's office and the California State University, and requests the University of California, to convene an intersegmental working group to recommend generative AI procurement standards and training. The systems must provide and annually review the training for students, faculty, and staff, keep training records, and report to the Legislature on systemwide GenAI contracts until standards are adopted.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Directs federal agencies to be transparent when using automated systems that use artificial intelligence to make covered decisions about individuals or interact with the public, including public inventories and guidance. Covered decisions include agency determinations affecting access to or the cost or availability of education and vocational training.

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• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires each school entity and nonpublic school to adopt a policy on the use of artificial intelligence by the 2027-2028 school year. The policy must bar generative AI from making final decisions on employment, grading, discipline, placement and IEPs, and include vendor safeguards for student data. Directs the Department of Education to develop implementation guidelines.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Establishes an Office of Algorithmic Civil Rights in the Department of Law and Public Safety to audit high-risk algorithmic systems used by State entities, including systems affecting access to education, for bias and discriminatory impacts, and to require corrective action plans.

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• Requires bias review or equitable access

Requires school entities that contract for artificial intelligence-related technology to include specified contract terms, including data security, a ban on collecting students' biometric information, and data deletion after termination. Directs the Department of Education to publish implementation guidelines and requires AI vendors serving schools to report their products to the department.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Allows school entities to train school employees on the use of artificial intelligence in education, covering instructional uses, academic integrity, privacy and bias, with continuing education credit for approved programs. Directs the Department of Education, subject to funding, to provide grants to school entities for this training.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Prohibits school entities from using artificial intelligence to provide services that would constitute the practice of a school-based mental health professional, such as diagnosis or counseling. Bars AI suppliers from contracting with school entities for such systems, while allowing school mental health professionals to use AI for administrative support.

Provisions

• Protections for minors using AI chatbots
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Establishes an Artificial Intelligence Horizon Fund, with amounts transferable to the Department of Education for grants including foundational AI literacy. Directs the Secretary of Education to create a national clearinghouse for AI education that disseminates instructional resources, voluntary model AI literacy curricula, and model guidance on classroom AI use, academic integrity, student privacy, and related topics.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Supports educators through multiple programs and directs the Department of Education's educational technology office to support research on digital literacy skills, including AI skills, and to build the capacity of local educational agencies and educator preparation programs to integrate emerging technologies and develop AI-related skills.

Provisions

• Adds AI to educator preparation or licensure
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Supports educators through programs on educator preparation, recruitment, and retention. Directs the Department of Education's educational technology office to support digital literacy skills, including skills related to artificial intelligence, and to build the capacity of local educational agencies and educator preparation programs to integrate emerging technologies; it also lists AI-driven tutoring platforms among emerging technology tools.

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• Adds AI to educator preparation or licensure

Establishes a federal framework for AI in education and the workforce, including training for teachers and school leaders on AI use without replacing educators, research and regional centers on AI in education, AI workforce and reskilling grants, equitable-access grants, and federal resources on AI procurement, family consent, and model policies on AI misuse.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, upon appropriation, to establish the Future of Creative Industries Pilot Program at up to 10 community colleges to reskill and upskill creative-industry workers displaced or at risk of displacement by generative AI, and to report on outcomes by January 1, 2032.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Adds Education Code 51900.3 so that sexual health instruction includes content educating pupils about dating abuse and digital violence, including the risks of nonconsensual intimate imagery, deepfakes, and the misuse of generative artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Requires public school employees and contractors performing services in public schools, including charter and renaissance schools, to be natural persons, covering positions such as teachers, administrators, counselors, and aides. The sponsor's statement says the intent is that interactions between students and school personnel be conducted by human beings rather than artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

A State Board of Education rule amendment requiring every Florida school district and charter school governing board to add AI instructional tool rules to its internet safety policy by July 1, 2027. Local policies must notify parents of approved AI tools and let them opt their child in, add extra review for tools used in pre-K through grade 5, require human review of AI-driven decisions, train staff, publish a list of approved tools, and bar vendors from using student data to train commercial AI models. The rule also bars AI designed to meet students' social or emotional needs or to simulate companionship.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Protections for minors using AI chatbots

On September 16, 2026, the Florida State Board of Education adopted rules on AI and educational technology that apply to Florida College System institutions as well as school districts and charter school boards. Each must adopt policies that notify parents when an AI instructional tool is approved, let parents choose a non-AI alternative, prohibit companion-style AI and undisclosed monitoring, bar vendors from selling student data, and set academic integrity expectations.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to states, local educational agencies, Tribal schools, and institutions of higher education to expand data literacy and data science education, defined to include artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires the State Department of Education to develop, by January 1, 2028, a plan to expand digital wellness instruction in California public schools. The plan must include strategies for keeping curriculum current with evolving digital and artificial intelligence technology and for educator professional development.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Amends California's student online privacy laws for K-12 and preschool so that operators of school-purpose websites, services, and apps may not use covered student information to train generative AI systems or develop AI systems. It also creates a Higher Education Student Information Protection Act, operative July 1, 2027, with similar protections for college students, and lets harmed students bring civil actions against noncompliant operators.

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• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Directs the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to states to establish or expand educational programs on artificial intelligence in elementary and secondary schools, including dedicated AI curricula and professional education for teachers, and to study the program.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Louisiana Department of Education guidance for K-12 schools that sets guiding principles for AI use, an AI literacy framework with Louisiana AI competencies for students, teachers, and leaders, and advice on classroom integration, career pathways, and prompting. It includes an AI technology evaluation rubric for vetting tools, a summary of relevant state privacy laws including data-sharing agreement requirements, and a sample family letter.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Enacts the FOCUS act, which requires schools to adopt written policies limiting student device use, requires school-issued devices to block AI companions, generative AI, and conversational AI (except conversational AI used as assistive technology), and requires schools to share department findings on educational technology and AI with families.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires each school district, charter school, and BOCES to adopt a written policy on humanoid robots that prohibits AI-enabled humanoid robots from delivering instruction, tutoring, grading student work, or performing duties ordinarily performed by certified school staff.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

A customizable model policy from the Office of the State Superintendent of Education for DC local education agencies to adapt for staff use of AI; adoption is optional. It sorts staff uses into a "stoplight" framework, with red uses (such as student discipline decisions, teacher evaluations, and IEP or Section 504 eligibility) prohibited, yellow uses (such as grading and drafting IEPs) allowed with enhanced oversight, and green uses (such as lesson planning) allowed with human review. It does not cover student use or tool procurement.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Requires the instructor of record for a California State University course, and CSU faculty employees, to be persons who meet the trustees' rules for faculty service, while stating that CSU employees may still use artificial intelligence tools in operations and student services.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Enacts the Ready to Learn, Ready for Health Act, requiring the Instructional Quality Commission, when the Health Education Framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2027, to consider including preventative health information, including the impacts and responsible use of social media, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Enacts the FOCUS act, which requires schools to adopt written policies limiting student device use, requires school-issued devices to block AI companions, generative AI, and conversational AI (except conversational AI used as assistive technology), and requires schools to share department findings on educational technology and AI with families.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Proposes changes to the Secretary's recognition of accrediting agencies and related institutional eligibility rules. In explaining a research-misconduct standard, the preamble states that accrediting agencies and institutions must ensure AI is not used by faculty to supplant teaching and that AI should not degrade research methods.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Encourages the leaders of the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges to create a workgroup of faculty, staff, and administrators to review AI use in higher education, discuss best practices on academic honesty, student privacy, academic support, and faculty support, and report to the Legislature within one year.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use

Makes technical and other changes to the 2026 budget, including creating a North Carolina High School Redesign Commission that must consider uses of artificial intelligence to expand student career exploration and work-based learning. Also allows the Friday Institute to carry forward nonrecurring funds for AI professional development modules.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction recommendations for responsible use of generative AI and AI literacy in public schools, organized around the five focus areas of the state Digital Learning Plan (leadership and vision, human capacity, curriculum and instruction, data privacy and cybersecurity, and technology infrastructure). It is a living document, first published January 16, 2024 and revised repeatedly since, with additions such as the EVERY responsible-use framework, tool evaluation resources, and guidance on deepfakes and AI social companions.

Bars chatbot operators from knowingly letting a chatbot impersonate a practitioner of a covered profession, including professions certified under article 61 of the education law, in a way that would be unlawful if done by a person, including a violation of the education law bar on paying an unqualified teacher from school moneys. Requires operators to give notice that users are interacting with an artificial intelligence chatbot.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so that state and local Student Support and Academic Enrichment funds may be used for instruction on safe, effective, and responsible use of artificial intelligence and for professional development that prepares teachers and other school staff to use and teach the use of AI.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Directs the National Science Foundation to hold workshops identifying gaps in data and research on the effects and harms to children of integrating artificial intelligence into classrooms, with participation from researchers, educators, school leaders, and parent groups, and to report the findings.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Seven principles the Higher Learning Commission set for its own use of AI across its operations, including accreditation activities: integrity, transparency, mission and strategic alignment, guidance, responsible efficiency, accountability, and privacy and security. HLC also said it would name an advisory group to develop AI resources for member institutions.

Advisory guidelines from the Montana Office of Public Instruction, developed with the Montana Digital Academy's Frontier Learning Lab, to help district and school leaders build local AI guidance, policy, and professional learning. Version 2.0 covers core principles for AI integration, an implementation roadmap, universal access, student privacy and responsible procurement, and a protocol for responding to malicious deepfakes and synthetic media.

Bars schools, including school districts, BOCES, charter schools, and nonpublic schools, from using humanoid robots in instructional settings and from using AI systems as the primary instructor, limits AI to supplemental use under a certified educator's supervision, restricts collection and use of student data by school AI systems, and requires annual compliance certification to the commissioner.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program supporting accelerated doctoral programs at institutions of higher education in specified technology areas, including artificial intelligence. Participating institutions must provide education and training to develop dual competency, defined to include applying AI and related computational methods to research in a discipline.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Makes supplemental omnibus appropriations for Michigan state departments for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027. Allocates up to $250,000 for the Department of Education to develop state artificial intelligence model policies, guidelines, and implementation tools and to integrate AI into its teaching, learning, and assessment supports for school districts.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Makes fiscal year 2026-2027 omnibus appropriations for Michigan K-12 school aid, higher education, and community colleges. Directs Michigan Virtual University, from its section 98 school aid allocation, to operate a statewide laboratory for research, best practices, policy formulation, and awareness about responsible use of artificial intelligence in schools.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires each school district, charter school, and BOCES to adopt a written policy on humanoid robots that prohibits AI-enabled humanoid robots from delivering instruction, tutoring, grading student work, or performing duties ordinarily performed by certified school staff.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Rewrites the federal grant program for statewide longitudinal data systems that connect early childhood, K-12, postsecondary, and workforce data. Allowable uses include exploring evidence-based, innovative, and secure methods of leveraging artificial intelligence.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Creates an interagency task force on addictive design features and youth mental health, with a focus on AI chatbots. Directs HHS to fund research by institutions of higher education on AI chatbots and youth mental health, and outreach grants that train parents and elementary and secondary school teachers to recognize and respond to warning signs of mental health risks from AI chatbot use.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Protections for minors using AI chatbots

Requires the Superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy to report a strategy to improve academic outcomes, including an assessment of the Cadet Honor Code and recommendations to update it to address artificial intelligence and large language models.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Directs the National Science Foundation to make competitive awards that broaden participation in artificial intelligence research, education, and workforce development, including at institutions with limited AI capacity. Funds may support AI research programs, faculty recruitment and professional development in AI, bridge programs preparing students for AI graduate programs, and integration of safe and reliable practices into AI education programs.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Directs the Department of Labor and Industry, in consultation with the Department of Community and Economic Development and the Office of Administration, to study artificial intelligence's impact on the state workforce and report to the General Assembly. The report must identify the skills and education needed to work with AI and the resources school entities and institutions of higher education need to deliver them, and the study must involve school entities and institutions of higher education.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Expands Department of Agriculture programs to increase access to artificial intelligence in agriculture, including by adding AI to cooperative extension work and by prioritizing food and agricultural sciences education grants for teaching enhancement projects on AI systems and precision agriculture. Creates an Artificial Intelligence Agriculture Advisor.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so that Student Support and Academic Enrichment funds may support teaching elementary and secondary students about the dangers, limitations, and responsible use of artificial intelligence, including AI chatbots, and may provide counseling for mental health issues arising from AI chatbot use.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Protections for minors using AI chatbots

Amends the Public School Code on several topics, including defining cyberbullying to include the use of artificial intelligence-generated or modified media. Requires school entity safety reports to count cyberbullying incidents suspected to involve AI-generated or modified media.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Revises many provisions on public school operation and the Department of Education and Workforce, including a directive that the department promote innovative educational programs by publicizing model projects, including projects that use artificial intelligence in instruction.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Bars teacher evaluators from using AI tools to assign scores or ratings in a teacher's evaluation and bars teachers from using AI to generate evidence of professional practice for their evaluations, while allowing AI for administrative tasks. Evaluators and teachers must disclose the name and purpose of any AI tool they use. Takes effect January 1, 2027.

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• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Statewide, non-mandatory guidance from the Illinois State Board of Education on AI use in prekindergarten through grade 12, developed under Public Act 104-0399 with a blue-ribbon advisory panel. It frames AI as a means to inform teaching and learning that keeps the teacher-student relationship central, and offers districts tools, model policy resources, and case studies on instruction, AI literacy, data privacy, and local decision-making.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Appropriates $600,000 to the State Department of Education to contract with a county office of education to maintain the California Educators Together online repository, which must include guidance and resources for educators and pupils on safeguards for use of new and emerging technology in schools, including artificial intelligence. It also creates a statewide subject matter transcript review service for the Commission on Teacher Credentialing that must comply with applicable AI governance standards.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

The Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2026 funds AI programs letting public school units buy Khanmigo and MagicSchool licenses for grades 6-12 and a Wake County-Wake Tech math project using Khanmigo. It requires K-12 AI literacy standards in the computer science course of study, a Department of Public Instruction model AI policy, local AI policies, and AI training modules for educators.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Oklahoma State Department of Education guidance for PK-12 schools, revised as Version 3.0 in July 2026 to incorporate the Oklahoma Responsible Technology in Schools Act (70 O.S. § 11-120). It explains the law's requirements, including educator-directed use, human review, the bar on AI as the primary basis for high-stakes decisions, parent disclosure and opt-out, and the district policy deadline, and offers instructional guidance on AI literacy, academic integrity, accessibility, and vendor vetting.

Provisions

• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Establishes a three-year Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality in Schools Pilot Program in which the Department of Education funds and supports 6 to 12 selected schools to procure and implement AI and XR products, forms a committee to study best practices and recommend products that safeguard student and educator data, and finalizes contracts with state technology and legal staff.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Appropriates money for the Missouri State Board of Education and Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Includes funding for safe schools programs, distributed to a statewide school board organization, that covers cyber and artificial intelligence threat management.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Defines a public school employee and a contractor performing services in a public school as a natural person. As amended March 19, 2026, would have barred discipline or dismissal of K-12 and public college and university employees based on information produced via artificial intelligence or automated decision system output, or for refusing to use educational technology, and required educational technology to let employees turn it off. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

Enacts the 2026-2028 budget, which includes $2,000,000 for an AI Innovation in Education Pilot Program administered by the Department of Education to support adoption of artificial intelligence software, programs, and training, and $500,000 for a pilot providing internships and apprenticeships in artificial intelligence, data science, and cybersecurity for Virginia Community College System students and graduates.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Makes the state's 2026-2027 appropriations, including Department of Education school and instructional enhancement projects for ZeroEyes AI firearm detection in Franklin, Hernando, Miami-Dade, and Seminole.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

A non-binding model board policy that California school districts and charter schools can adapt, developed by the California Department of Education with the SB 1288 working group. It covers disclosure and plagiarism, limits on AI detection software, privacy and vendor contract safeguards, parent review rights, teacher-retained grading authority, and AI literacy as a core academic competency.

Provisions

• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Revises academic intervention, mathematics improvement, and related school requirements, and directs the Department of Education and Workforce to promote innovative educational programs, including by publicizing model projects that use artificial intelligence in instruction.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Establishes the New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Workforce Transition Act, with supports for workers displaced by AI. Directs the Council of County Colleges to develop stackable credentials prioritizing fields such as AI systems oversight, and directs the Secretary of Higher Education to recommend performance supplements for county colleges, including for graduates who were AI-displaced workers.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Provides social media protections for children under 16 and requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 AI literacy standards included in computer science courses. Requires the Department of Public Instruction to adopt a model AI policy, requires local boards to adopt AI use policies, calls for a framework for evaluating generative AI educational tools, and directs AI training modules for educators and administrators developed with the Friday Institute.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Would have required Arizona school districts, starting in 2027-28, to provide instruction on the ethical, moral, and educational uses of AI to students in grades 3, 6, 8, 10, and 12, using a curriculum adopted by the Department of Education, and to report annually on that instruction. Both chambers passed the bill, but Governor Hobbs vetoed it on June 19, 2026.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction

Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop K-12 guidelines on instructional technology, defined to include artificial intelligence tools, that prioritize teacher-led instruction and address academic integrity and student privacy. Requires each public school governing body to adopt a policy on instructional technology use.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

Amends the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act to support graduate and postdoctoral fellowships through institutions of higher education for research on trustworthy artificial intelligence, authorizes NSF workshops, and directs NIST to develop an AI workforce framework with outreach to AI programs at all education levels.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Omnibus state government act that creates, dissolves, and renames funds and amends the Human Rights Act and other laws. Among its changes, it amends the School Code bullying section to add definitions of artificial intelligence and unauthorized digital replica.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Establishes a federal Department of Advanced Technology and Artificial Intelligence to coordinate federal AI standards and policy. Among its functions, the Secretary must provide strategies on promoting AI literacy in schools and AI workforce programs.

Establishes the New Jersey Artificial Intelligence Workforce Transition Act, with supports for workers displaced by AI. Directs the Council of County Colleges to develop stackable credentials prioritizing fields such as AI systems oversight, and directs the Secretary of Higher Education to recommend performance supplements for county colleges, including for graduates who were AI-displaced workers.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires each school district board of education to adopt, annually review, and post a policy on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in its schools, including a process for questions or concerns, equity of student access, and standards and approval processes for AI implementation. Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop a model policy.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires bias review or equitable access
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Requires school district and charter school governing bodies, and state universities, to adopt policies and procedures to detect and prevent unauthorized student use of artificial intelligence to complete coursework, with human review, appeals, bias mitigation, and privacy safeguards for any detection system, and guidelines on authorized use. Requires training for teachers and staff and annual reports to the Department of Education.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Requires school districts to offer at least one-half unit of computer science and, beginning with students entering ninth grade on or after July 1, 2029, requires students to complete it; the unit must include instruction in artificial intelligence, and students may be exempted by demonstrating competency in computer science and AI.

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• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement

Expands crimes involving AI-generated sexual images, including a new crime of possessing such images of persons under seventeen, and defines 'student' for these offenses. Requires public school principals to give students in grade six and above and their parents information each year about these crimes, using materials developed by the Department of Education.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Creates a 14-member special legislative commission to study the use and impact of digital and electronic technology, including artificial intelligence, in Rhode Island public education and on mental health. The study covers third-party platforms in schools, safe school software, AI in mental health care and AI companion technology.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Requires each school district board of education to adopt, annually review, and post a policy on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in its schools, including a process for questions or concerns, equity of student access, and standards and approval processes for AI implementation. Directs the Commissioner of Education to develop a model policy.

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• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires bias review or equitable access
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Statewide framework from the Maryland State Department of Education for responsible AI use in K-12 schools, covering roles and responsibilities, data privacy and security, equity, academic integrity and assessment, professional learning, student AI literacy, operational uses, and procurement and vendor governance. It says MSDE does not approve specific AI tools and that local education agencies adopt district AI policies and vet tools.

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• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Oregon Department of Education guidance on generative AI in K-12 classrooms, released as Version 3.0 in June 2026 as a web-based interactive guide that replaced the earlier v2.0 document. It moves from introducing generative AI toward practical guidance on safe, effective implementation, built around guiding principles, and is accompanied by a step-by-step guide for school leaders on developing AI policies and protocols and other companion resources.

Minnesota Department of Education principles for responsible AI use in schools, based on the U.S. Department of Education's 2023 AI report and the National Center on Education and the Economy's 2024 framework. The principles call for grounding AI use in a shared vision and values, keeping people at the center of decisions, advancing equity, ensuring safety, privacy, and effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Prohibits students, faculty, administrative staff, and other employees at elementary and secondary schools from using deepfake material against K-12 students to coerce, harass, intimidate, or maliciously disseminate or sell it. Directs the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Education to adopt implementing rules.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Adds conduct involving AI-generated or deepfake sexual imagery to the definition of power-based violence under the Campus Accountability and Safety Act. Updates the deadline for institutions to distribute safety education to students on power-based violence and online threats.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Amends the Dignity for All Students Act definition of cyberbullying to include intentionally using artificial intelligence to mimic or alter a person's likeness or voice without consent.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Directs the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study potential state regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative AI chatbots and publish a report. The study must evaluate potential economic impacts on educational institutions, among others, and review safeguards for minors.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Requires the Department of Education to provide at least one free asynchronous professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom for teachers in grades 6-12. Requires those teachers to complete such a course by August 1, 2028, or within two years of becoming licensed, and requires LEAs and public charter schools to award professional development points for it.

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• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Makes state operations appropriations, including funds for City University of New York artificial intelligence initiatives, the Education Department's Empire AI Student Challenge program, State University of New York AI and society departments and a natural language processing AI program, and opportunity promise scholarships for associate's degrees in high-demand fields including artificial intelligence.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Requires the Maryland State Department of Education to publish and annually review AI guidance for students, educators, administrators, and parents, and requires each local school system to adopt an aligned AI policy within 120 days of that guidance and designate an AI coordinator. It also has the Department develop a rubric for evaluating AI tools, add AI literacy to K-12 workforce preparation and computer science standards by June 1, 2027, provide educator professional development, and establishes a temporary Maryland AI Education Collaborative.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Creates a task force, council, or study

Alters the Cyber Warrior Diversity Program to include training students in artificial intelligence and extends related scholarship terms to AI degree programs. Establishes the Maryland Artificial Intelligence Partnership in the University System of Maryland, which provides free AI skills training including credit-bearing credentials, and an Artificial Intelligence Public Service Fellowship matching public college students with state agency AI projects.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Directs the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study potential state regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative AI chatbots and publish a report. The study must evaluate potential economic impacts on educational institutions, among others, and review safeguards for minors.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study

Requires the Department of Education to provide at least one free asynchronous professional development course on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom for teachers in grades 6-12. Requires those teachers to complete such a course by August 1, 2028, or within two years of becoming licensed, and requires LEAs and public charter schools to award professional development points for it.

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• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Directs California labor, economic development, and other state agencies to study and respond to AI's effects on the workforce, including reviewing training programs and AI literacy programs. It requests that higher education institutions expand measures that prepare a workforce for new technologies and look at adding on-the-job training to degree programs.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Expands Department of Agriculture programs to increase access to artificial intelligence in agriculture. Adds AI to cooperative extension work, adds a purpose to food and agricultural sciences education grants for training programs that teach implementation of computing systems and AI, and prioritizes teaching enhancement projects on AI systems and precision agriculture.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

The South Dakota Board of Regents announced systemwide objectives for adopting AI at the state's public universities. The work is organized into five components: governance and infrastructure, curricular and program impacts, agentic AI in operations, research, and AI literacy for students, faculty, and staff.

Urges and requests the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to incorporate artificial intelligence into content standards.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Governor Phil Scott created an advisory Vermont AI Economic Taskforce to assess AI's effect on the state economy sector by sector and recommend actions, investments, and legislation. Members include an education-sector representative, and the taskforce must coordinate with institutions of higher education on workforce initiatives. Annual reports are due January 1, 2027 and January 1, 2028; the order runs two years unless extended.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Amends Missouri's computer science course law to define computer science courses to include artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and social media training. Requires the computer science work group to develop additional academic performance standards incorporating artificial intelligence, to be adopted by the State Board of Education beginning in the 2027-28 school year.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Enacts the PROTECT Students Act, requiring a statewide digital privacy agreement for software used by students in Missouri schools. The agreement bars software from using student data to train machine-learning models or employing AI systems that analyze or influence students' emotions, behavior, or attention, applies content restrictions to AI-generated or AI-recommended content, and requires vendors to disclose all AI components to the contracting school entity.

Provisions

• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction

A state budget adjustment act that, among many provisions, carries forward $500,000 to the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities for the AI Academy in fiscal year 2027.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Regulates automated decision-making technology used to materially influence consequential decisions in covered domains, including education enrollment or an education opportunity, with notice, disclosure, and correction rights; deployers subject to FERPA may meet these duties for education decisions through FERPA notice and student record procedures.

Provisions

• Requires bias review or equitable access
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Amends the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program renewal criteria. Applicants must show partnerships with postsecondary institutions, including dual enrollment, to establish or expand career pathways in fields including artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Establishes an Office of Algorithmic Civil Rights in the Department of Law and Public Safety to audit high-risk algorithmic systems used by State entities, including systems affecting access to education, for bias and discriminatory impacts, and to require corrective action plans.

Provisions

• Requires bias review or equitable access

Creates a competitive grant program for long-term facility improvements at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Allowable uses include workforce development hubs focused on fields such as artificial intelligence that support education, training, and career placement for students, and research equipment for emerging fields such as AI.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Expands the Veterans Affairs high technology education program to include emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, and directs the Secretary to work with employers and educational institutions to identify courses of education that prepare veterans for jobs in emerging technology fields.

Provisions

• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Revises high school graduation curriculum requirements and diploma pathways, and allows a school district to waive Oklahoma history graduation requirements for certain students who complete a project or paper without the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use

Creates a competitive grant program for long-term facility improvements at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Allowable uses include workforce development hubs focused on fields such as artificial intelligence that support education, training, and career placement for students, and research equipment for emerging fields such as AI.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

As enacted, makes a computer science course, or a career, technical, and agricultural education course with embedded computer science, a high school graduation requirement beginning in the 2031-2032 school year for students graduating in 2037 or later, and adds artificial intelligence and computer science ethics to the statutory definition of computer science. The final version also raises the Georgia Virtual School per-course charge, requires schools to allow patriotic societies to speak with students, and revises the definition of private school; the listed caption reflects the bill as first introduced.

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• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so that state and local Student Support and Academic Enrichment funds may be used for instruction on safe, effective, and responsible use of artificial intelligence and for professional development that prepares teachers and other school staff to use and teach the use of AI.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Sets statewide rules for artificial intelligence in Oklahoma public schools: AI tools must be educator-directed with human review of outputs, may not be the primary basis for grading, discipline, placement or other high-stakes decisions, and must comply with student privacy law. Districts must disclose AI tools to parents annually, let parents opt students out of student-facing AI without penalty, and adopt an AI policy before the 2027-2028 school year, and the State Department of Education must issue guidance.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

An online safety and artificial intelligence act that, among other provisions, establishes a Connecticut AI Academy through the Board of Regents offering AI courses, career preparation, resources for people aged 13 to 20, and courses and videos for K-12 teachers and administrators on appropriate classroom AI use and teaching students about AI, with certificates and badges for completers.

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• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Enacts the student suicide prevention act requiring local educational agencies serving grades seven to twelve to adopt suicide prevention policies, and expands the education law definition of bullying to include intentionally using artificial intelligence to mimic or alter a person's likeness or voice without consent.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Makes the state's 2026-2027 appropriations, including Department of Education school and instructional enhancement projects for ZeroEyes AI firearm and gun detection in Franklin County, Miami-Dade, Hernando, and Seminole County.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires each school board to adopt, by the 2027-2028 school year, an AI technology policy that prohibits teachers from using AI tools to assign scores or grades for tasks requiring professional judgment and requires district approval of any AI model used with students or student work, with a list of approved models provided to schools each year.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Establishes a task force to study the effects of artificial intelligence on the trades industry, including job displacement and the current coursework and curriculum of the Technical Education and Career System regarding AI, with a report due January 1, 2027.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study

Creates the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition to direct State agency assessments of generative and frontier AI's impact on industries, occupations, and workers and to recommend changes to workforce development, education, and related programs. Designated agencies include the community college and higher education boards and the State Board of Education, which addresses career and technical education pathways and educator AI literacy.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study

Establishes an Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force to review laws on AI in educational contexts, recommend best practices for AI in schools and consider funding, reporting to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by March 2028. Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 AI instruction standards and, to the extent funded, Department of Public Instruction professional development on AI, with a $250,000 appropriation.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Funds and changes K-12 education programs, including an AI Academic Support Program letting public school units contract for the AI tool Khanmigo in grades 6-12 and a project in which Wake County schools and Wake Tech use Khanmigo for college math courses. Creates a High School Redesign Commission that must consider AI uses for career exploration, defines high-tech learning accelerators including AI, and lists AI learning tools in a competency-based education grant objective.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Authorizes local boards of education and other public school units to adopt policies on student AI use, including blocking AI tools and disciplining unauthorized use, with exceptions for teacher-authorized or IEP/504 use. Creates a middle school course covering proper uses of AI and identifying AI-generated content, with $500,000 for implementation, and requires universities and community colleges to develop standards for classroom AI use and discipline for misuse.

Provisions

• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

An education bill that, among many provisions, allows a district to reserve up to 1 percent of Title I funds for eligible schools to provide STEM curricula, instructional materials, and related learning technologies, including technologies related to artificial intelligence, in Title I schools.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires public employers, including school districts, BOCES, SUNY, CUNY, and community colleges, to notify recognized employee representatives at least twelve months before procuring or deploying new AI applications that change or eliminate jobs, and to bargain collectively over implementation, transition, and training.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Creates chatbot licensing, safety and privacy requirements for covered platforms, including de-identification of conversation data and encryption. Applies a 30-day message destruction requirement to chatbots employed in fields that include education.

Provisions

• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Makes fiscal year 2026-2027 omnibus appropriations for Michigan K-12 school aid, higher education, and community colleges. Directs Michigan Virtual University, from its section 98 school aid allocation, to operate a statewide laboratory for research, best practices, policy formulation, and awareness about responsible use of artificial intelligence in schools.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Prohibits the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms before ninth grade, except for diagnostic purposes or explicit instruction interventions for students with disabilities, allows school staff to use AI for administrative and planning purposes, and requires the commissioner to give districts guidance on permissible uses.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

SUNY policy 6904, effective April 30, 2026, setting guidelines for acceptable use of AI across state-operated campuses and other SUNY entities. It sets out responsible AI principles and requires each institution to publish or update its own AI policies by December 31, 2026.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

Creates an Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights and restricts government AI contracts; among other provisions, bars educational entities from giving students access to AI instructional tools before grade 6 except when supervised or for English learner or disability supports, and requires parental notice, a parental opt-out with an alternative activity, and parental access to student AI tool accounts, with private schools also required to comply.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 AI literacy standards included in computer science courses and to revise the computer science course of study. Requires the Department of Public Instruction to develop a model AI policy and local boards and other public school units to adopt AI use policies, establishes a framework for evaluating AI educational tools, and funds AI training modules for educators and administrators through the Friday Institute.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Would authorize the National Science Foundation to make competitive awards to colleges and nonprofits to develop K-12 AI literacy curricula, instructional materials, teacher professional development, and evaluation tools. The bill was referred to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Authorizes the National Science Foundation to fund research on K-12 AI literacy curricula and educator professional learning, AI scholarships and fellowships for students, teachers, and school professionals, up to eight community college and area career and technical education Centers of AI Excellence, and research on teaching AI in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 classrooms. Also adds AI skills development to the National STEM Teacher Corps, alongside federal AI standards, research, governance, and deepfake provisions.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Adds AI to educator preparation or licensure

Requires public employers, including school districts, BOCES, SUNY, CUNY, and community colleges, to notify recognized employee representatives at least twelve months before procuring or deploying new AI applications that change or eliminate jobs, and to bargain collectively over implementation, transition, and training.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt standards for age-appropriate AI instruction for kindergarten through grade 12, covering AI concepts, real-world applications, economic, legal and social issues, and responsible, ethical use. Appropriates $100,000 in recurring funds to the Department of Public Instruction to support schools providing the instruction.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Creates the Oklahoma AI Education Innovation Act, an AI Education Innovation Revolving Fund that agencies may use for AI tools, educator professional development, curriculum, research, student AI literacy and workforce programs, and infrastructure, and an Oklahoma AI Education Advisory Council that advises the education, higher education, career technology, and library agencies on AI education.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Adopts the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Act, requiring developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions to document, disclose and mitigate risks of algorithmic discrimination. Consequential decisions include those affecting education enrollment or an education opportunity.

Provisions

• Requires bias review or equitable access

Establishes the Economy of the Future Commission to develop legislative recommendations on economic changes caused by artificial intelligence adoption. The Commission must evaluate effects on K-12 public education, career and technical education, and higher education, and its final report must include recommendations on artificial intelligence education.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study

Adds emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, to Alabama's statutory definition of computer science and requires public school students, beginning with the graduating class of 2032, to earn at least one credit in a department-approved computer science course or a course with embedded computer science skills. The credit can count toward mathematics, science, career and technical education, or elective requirements without raising the total credits needed to graduate.

Provisions

• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement

Bars charter and cyber charter schools from adopting an instructional model that relies on artificial intelligence instead of professional employees to provide direct instruction. Bars authorizers from accepting such applications, makes adoption of such a model grounds for revocation or nonrenewal, and directs the board to issue regulations prohibiting it in public school entities.

Provisions

• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Requires the Virginia Department of Education to compile information on current classroom uses of AI and post guidance for the safe, ethical, and equitable use of AI systems in public schools, and requires each school board to adopt policies consistent with that guidance. Subject to appropriation, it also creates the AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program to fund and evaluate AI pilots in school divisions, with annual reports to the legislature.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Requires the Virginia Department of Education to compile information on current classroom uses of AI and post guidance for the safe, ethical, and equitable use of AI systems in public schools, and requires each school board to adopt policies consistent with that guidance. Subject to appropriation, it also creates the AIS Innovation in Education Pilot Program to fund and evaluate AI pilots in school divisions, with annual reports to the legislature.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Requires the State Department of Education to provide guidance on artificial intelligence to local school systems, educators, parents, and students, and requires each local school system to have an AI policy aligned with that guidance and to designate an AI coordinator. Requires the Department to publish a rubric that local school systems must use to evaluate AI tools, provide AI professional development to educators and school leaders, and establishes a Maryland AI Education Collaborative.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Final rule establishing a supplemental priority the Secretary of Education may use in any Department discretionary grant competition, effective May 13, 2026. It covers projects that expand understanding of AI (such as AI literacy, K-12 and college AI and computer science courses, educator professional development, and AI dual-enrollment and certification opportunities) and projects that expand appropriate and ethical use of AI in teaching, tutoring, special education, teacher training, and school operations.

Provisions

• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Urges the Department of Education to co-develop a grade 6-12 artificial intelligence literacy and usage curriculum with teachers, consulting research and AI literacy frameworks. Urges that the curriculum foster ethical AI use, enable equitable access, and include regular assessments of student progress.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Requires bias review or equitable access

Appropriates Education Trust Fund money for fiscal year 2027, including $1,000,000 to the Alabama Community College System for Cyber Technology and AI Expansion and $2,000,000 for AI-Ready Classrooms under the Advanced Innovation Grant Program in the State Department of Education's Financial Assistance Program.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Makes supplemental appropriations for Maine state government for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Includes one-time funding for the Department of Education to expand its artificial intelligence guidance toolkit and provide grants for AI professional development or planning for educators.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Enacts the Maryland fiscal year 2027 state budget. Adds $500,000 to the State Department of Education for Artificial Intelligence Ready Schools Act initiatives, such as an AI Education Collaborative to monitor and evaluate AI implementation in schools, contingent on enactment of SB 720 or HB 1057.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Enacts multiple K-12 literacy initiatives, including a requirement that public high school students earn a unit of computer science or CTE with embedded computer science credit before graduation. The qualifying course must include instruction on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, including what AI is, how it works, and its impact on society.

Provisions

• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement
• Requires AI literacy instruction

Makes prekindergarten through grade 12 education policy changes in Minnesota. Amends the definition of a qualified teacher to provide that an artificial intelligence model is not a qualified teacher and may not perform the service for which a teacher is employed in a public school, while allowing licensed teachers to use AI as a tool.

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• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Establishes the Safe School Technology Act, setting rules for school-issued devices and instructional technology. To be certified, an instructional technology tool must be designed for instruction, meet curriculum standards, and exclude features such as generative or conversational artificial intelligence, targeted advertising and addictive design.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 digital literacy content standards that address, among other things, evaluating information using or generated by artificial intelligence; requires local boards to provide digital literacy instruction beginning in 2027-28; and requires Department of Education model programs to include responsible and discerning use of AI and generative AI. Also revises financial literacy instruction and bars schools from partnering with gambling enterprises.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Requires AI literacy instruction

Requires the internet safety component of each school division's instructional program to include instruction on modern digital safety topics, including online scams, misinformation, and content generated by artificial intelligence, and directs the Superintendent of Public Instruction to issue guidance on those topics.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Urges the Department of Education to co-develop a grade 6-12 artificial intelligence literacy and usage curriculum with teachers, consulting research and AI literacy frameworks. Urges that the curriculum foster ethical AI use, enable equitable access, and include regular assessments of student progress.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Requires bias review or equitable access

Bars public entities, including those purchasing K-12 instructional materials and higher education systems, from entering into or extending contracts for AI technology on or after July 1, 2027, unless the contractor attests it is not owned or controlled by a foreign country of concern.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Requires each public school to incorporate instruction on artificial intelligence into an existing course of study for students in grades six through twelve. Directs the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to adopt implementing rules.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction

Would require providers of student-facing educational technology products used in Vermont schools to register annually with the Secretary of State, and would bar schools from using products the Secretary of State has not certified. Certification standards must consider design features including use of artificial intelligence, and certified products could not collect non-essential student data or use it for sale or noneducational profiling. Passed the House in March 2026 and was referred to Senate Finance.

Provisions

• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Establishes an artificial intelligence in education task force within the University of Hawaii to develop model guidance on AI as an instructional tool, data privacy and vendor transparency standards, digital equity recommendations, educator professional-development guidelines, and a framework for evaluating learning outcomes. Requires reports in 2027, 2028, and 2029 and appropriates funds.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Executive budget that allows the Technical College System Board to award grants to technical college districts for adopting and using artificial intelligence, including educator upskilling, curriculum development, and stackable credentials. Also directs the Department of Workforce Development to allocate $200,000 a year in grants to help school districts prepare students for a future that includes artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Enacts the Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Act, requiring the California Community Colleges, upon appropriation, to develop statewide guidance on AI use in community colleges, fund model AI curriculum and educational resources, and support AI literacy in instructor preparation and professional development.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Creates a new chapter of Idaho Code on generative AI in education. The State Department of Education must develop a statewide generative AI framework, subject to State Board of Education approval, that ensures no generative AI replaces a human teacher; every school district and public charter school must adopt an aligned generative AI policy. The department must also develop K-12 generative AI literacy standards, assessment guidelines, an educator professional development plan, and a parent guidance document, and AI tools procured by schools must meet data privacy and vendor disclosure requirements.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Requires the State Department of Education to study nonconsensual artificial intimate images involving K-12 pupils, including school resources, reported incidents, effects on pupils, and recommended policy revisions, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2028.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Requests the Department of Education to develop artificial intelligence literacy curricula plans and programs for public schools, covering AI concepts, machine learning and generative AI, best practices, ethics, innovation, and AI in relation to Hawaii's history and culture. Requests that the department submit the plans to the Legislature before the 2027 session.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction

Requests the Department of Education to develop artificial intelligence literacy curricula plans and programs for public schools, covering AI concepts, machine learning and generative AI, best practices, ethics, innovation, and AI in relation to Hawaii's history and culture. Requests that the department submit the plans to the Legislature before the 2027 session.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction

Directs the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to survey schools on classroom technology use and safeguards, including policies on generative and conversational artificial intelligence and on AI use in grading and teacher evaluations. The Institute must gather guidance on safe instructional technology and report recommendations by December 1, 2026.

Provisions

• Creates a task force, council, or study

Revises school safety personnel standards and adds AI glasses to the devices students may not use at school during classroom hours, with local education agency policies required to permit use for emergencies, accommodations, and medical needs.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

Requires the Utah State Board of Education to publish a model policy on balanced classroom technology use that includes a model artificial intelligence use policy, and requires each local education agency to adopt its own AI use policy based on that model. It also adds AI to the core computer science standards and allows high schools to offer an AI "sandbox" course.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Requires the State Board of Education to have standards in place, beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, for a grade 7 or 8 digital skills course whose concepts include artificial intelligence literacy alongside topics such as digital privacy, cybersecurity, media literacy, and algorithms. It also lets the state superintendent create an advisory tech council on technology education.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks

Requires the State Board of Education to study best practices for software used in public schools, including student data practices, algorithmic systems that may prioritize engagement over learning, and transparency about embedded analytics or artificial intelligence systems, and to publish and distribute guidance to local education agencies before July 1, 2027.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Establishes the West Virginia Micro-Credential Program within the Higher Education Policy Commission to set standards for micro-credentials that document student and employee skills. Authorizes the commission to use digital, web-based, and artificial intelligence-based micro-credentials to meet workforce demands.

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• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

An administrative efficiency bill for public schools that, among many provisions, addresses use of reserved Title I funds for STEM curricula and learning technologies in schools, including technologies related to artificial intelligence.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

An administrative efficiency bill for public schools that, among many provisions, addresses use of reserved Title I funds for STEM curricula and learning technologies in schools, including technologies related to artificial intelligence.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Bars school districts, public and private schools, and VPK providers from giving students access to artificial intelligence instructional tools before grade 6 except under school personnel supervision or for English learner or disability supports. Requires notice to parents before students receive access, a parental opt-out with an alternative activity, and operator-provided parental access to student account information.

Provisions

• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt statewide standards and a policy for school and student use of artificial intelligence that permit student AI use only with teacher permission, require students to disclose AI use, and require AI-monitoring safeguards and proctored assessments for the Florida Virtual School; directs the Department of Education to collect AI metrics, train teachers, and review district compliance; adds digital literacy and AI ethics instruction; and requires student codes of conduct to include AI policies.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

Creates the Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Study Group to review AI in instruction, research, and student conduct in the State University System and Florida College System, examine academic integrity, privacy, and faculty training needs, recommend model institutional policies, and report by December 1, 2026.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Requires statewide general education core courses that integrate technology to include instruction on applying artificial intelligence tools, requires high school computer science courses offered to students to include instruction on artificial intelligence, and directs the State Board of Education to establish grade-band computer science teacher subject area coverages.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction

An education bill that, among many provisions, requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Lastinger Center for Learning to recommend individualized, adaptive artificial intelligence tools to support K-12 mathematics instruction, and allows reserved Title I funds to support STEM learning technologies including AI.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

An education bill that, among many provisions, allows a district to reserve up to 1 percent of Title I funds for eligible schools to provide STEM curricula, instructional materials, and related learning technologies, including technologies related to artificial intelligence, in Title I schools.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires mathematics pathways and applied algebra courses, and requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Lastinger Center for Learning to recommend an individualized, adaptive artificial intelligence tool for K-12 mathematics instruction, evaluating alignment to standards, diagnostics, teacher professional development, student data privacy, and costs, by December 1, 2026.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

As introduced, would have required an Institute for Speech and Debate Innovation within the Florida Virtual School to create artificial intelligence-based coaching tools, digital judging tutorials, and analytics dashboards for speech and debate instruction, and appropriated $750,000 to support the institute. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Creates the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Public Postsecondary Education, adjunct to the Department of Education, to review AI in instruction, research, and student conduct in the State University System and Florida College System, examine academic integrity, privacy, and faculty training needs, recommend model institutional policies, and report by December 1, 2026.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Makes appropriations for the 2027 fiscal year. As introduced, would direct $3,000,000 of the State Department of Education's Mountain State Digital Literacy Program appropriation to digital artificial intelligence tutoring; the later version directs that amount to tutoring and support resources for digital literacy, math, career-technical education, and internet safety. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Requires school district boards of education and charter or renaissance school boards of trustees that use surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities to adopt a policy on the system's use. The policy must describe the information collected, how it is used and accessed, and require signage, and the board must distribute it to parents and guardians.

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• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Establishes the Economy of the Future Commission to develop legislative recommendations on economic changes caused by artificial intelligence adoption. The Commission must evaluate effects on K-12 public education, career and technical education, and higher education, and its final report must include recommendations on artificial intelligence education.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Establishes the Arizona Artificial Intelligence Education Program in the Department of Education to offer a summer AI education course open to any resident, covering digital hygiene, recognition of AI-generated content, and use of AI for small business. Public schools, state universities, and community colleges may award academic credit for completing the course.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement

Creates an Educational Technology Regulatory Sandbox in public education for time-limited pilots of artificial intelligence technologies, with parental notice and opt-out rights, limits on AI grading and placement decisions without educator review, student disclosure of substantial AI use, and state board training requirements for educators.

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• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Adds AI glasses to the devices students may not use at school during classroom hours, requires local education agencies to adopt policies allowing use for emergencies, crisis lines, accommodations, and medical needs, and directs the State Board of Education to set cybersecurity standards for local education agencies.

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• Limits or bans AI tools in instruction
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy

Revises rules on sensitive instructional materials in public schools, including review duties for local education agencies and prohibitions on vendors of digital instructional material. As introduced, would require the state board to contract with a book reviewer whose service uses artificial intelligence assisted analysis to screen materials, and require each local education agency to train schools on that AI tool. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

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• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to survey and evaluate artificial intelligence use policies at Virginia institutions of higher education on academic integrity, data privacy, equity, transparency, and faculty autonomy, to develop a model AI use policy, and to recommend resources for a statewide clearinghouse.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Enacts the Mississippi Future Innovators Act, requiring public high school students, beginning with the 2029-2030 ninth-grade class, to earn one unit of credit in computer science or a CTE course with embedded computer science. The qualifying course must include instruction on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, including what AI is, how it works, and its impact on society.

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• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement
• Requires AI literacy instruction

Requires the State Board of Education to adopt K-12 digital literacy content standards that address, among other things, evaluating information using or generated by artificial intelligence; requires local boards to provide digital literacy instruction beginning in 2027-28; and requires Department of Education model programs to include responsible and discerning use of AI and generative AI.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Requires AI literacy instruction

Requires the Federal Trade Commission to develop and publish educational resources for parents, educators, and minors on the safe and responsible use of chatbots by minors, covering risks and benefits and privacy practices. The bill also regulates chatbot providers' statements and disclosures to minors.

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• Protections for minors using AI chatbots

Directs the National Science Foundation to award scholarships for students studying artificial intelligence, including the teaching of AI in schools and colleges, and fellowships for students, teachers, and faculty in AI. Creates community college and vocational school Centers of AI Excellence and requires guidance on the introduction and use of AI in elementary and secondary education.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Utah State Board of Education guidance for students, staff, and school communities on responsible use of AI, especially generative AI, in instruction, school management, and operations where local policy permits. It sets guiding principles, lists responsible and prohibited uses (including AI-manipulated media for bullying, plagiarism, and uses that compromise privacy), and addresses safety, security, and privacy. The version posted at access is dated March 2026 and is described as a living document.

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• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Establishes an American Sign Language education working group and directs the Department of Education to issue curriculum guidance for American Sign Language instruction. As introduced, would have let the Department of Education approve supplemental literacy support products using machine-learning systems that listen to students read aloud and provide tutoring, subject to approval criteria. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

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• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Enacts the Consumer Protections in Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems Act, prohibiting algorithmic discrimination by high-risk AI systems and setting duties for developers and deployers. High-risk systems include those that make or substantially factor into consequential decisions on education enrollment or education opportunities.

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• Requires bias review or equitable access

Establishes a school safety threat assessment pilot project in which the Office of Justice Programs contracts for threat monitoring and response services in selected school districts, which may use predictive analytics and artificial intelligence-driven software. Appropriates $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 and requires a report by January 15, 2027.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Establishes a school safety threat assessment pilot project in which the Office of Justice Programs contracts for threat monitoring and response services in selected school districts, which may use predictive analytics and artificial intelligence-driven software. Appropriates $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2027 and requires a report by January 15, 2027.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Makes appropriations for the 2027 fiscal year. As introduced, would direct $3,000,000 of the State Department of Education's Mountain State Digital Literacy Program appropriation to digital artificial intelligence tutoring; the later version directs that amount to tutoring and support resources for digital literacy, math, career-technical education, and internet safety. The AI provisions were removed by amendment.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Creates crimes of distributing and possessing generated obscene child sexual abuse material that depicts a child who, by manipulation, creation, or modification, appears to engage in sexual conduct, regardless of whether an actual child was used. Requires lifetime revocation of the teaching certificate of a person convicted of these crimes.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Would add Section 59-28-195 to the South Carolina Code to require written opt-in parental consent before students use AI in instruction, annual disclosure of AI tools and data practices, teacher review of AI-generated content, and limits on student data collection and commercial use. It would bar AI from replacing licensed teachers in core instruction or final grading and from automated discipline or placement decisions without human review, and would let parents seek injunctive relief or damages.

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• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families
• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use

Requires school district boards of education and charter or renaissance school boards of trustees that use surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities to adopt a policy on the system's use. The policy must describe the information collected, how it is used and accessed, and require signage, and the board must distribute it to parents and guardians.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires the State Department of Education to develop or approve an artificial intelligence training program for county board of education members, covering AI fundamentals, AI use policy development, and student privacy and data protection laws. Requires each county board member to complete foundational and then annual continuing AI training and the Department to report on the program's effectiveness.

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• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Requires school districts to include instruction on artificial intelligence in the K-12 curriculum as part of the computer science and design thinking standards, with sample resources from the Commissioner of Education. Requires each public institution of higher education to offer AI certificate and degree programs and directs the Secretary of Higher Education to develop AI model curricula for four-year institutions and county colleges.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Senate general appropriations act for fiscal year 2026-27. Among the School and Instructional Enhancements projects funded from Specific Appropriation 108, it funds ZeroEyes AI firearm and gun detection technology in Franklin, Miami-Dade, Hernando and Seminole counties.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Bars deployers from making available an artificial intelligence system that falsely presents itself as a licensed professional or provides individualized professional services that would violate licensure laws, including the Title 22.1 provisions cited in the bill (§§ 22.1-292 and 22.1-299), and requires notice to users that they are interacting with an AI system. The Attorney General enforces the section with civil penalties.

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• Prohibits AI from replacing licensed educators

Texas A&M University System regulation, most recently revised February 18, 2026, guiding the use of generative and other AI for research. It bars using public or third-party AI tools with non-public research data, such as unpublished, export-controlled, or classified research, unless the tool is covered by a system or member contract with adequate safeguards.

Requires the workforce development board to establish a cyber and artificial intelligence workforce initiative, including support for K-12 cyber and AI literacy standards, higher education partnerships, and, subject to appropriation, a grant program for AI training programs. Directs the state board of education to oversee statewide cyber and AI education standards and frameworks from kindergarten through higher education and a voluntary school certification program, and requires the department of education to run a community cyber and AI awareness initiative.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Would add one semester of computer science and artificial intelligence to Iowa's high school graduation requirements beginning with the 2030-2031 graduating class, require computer science standards to cover what AI is, how it works, and its societal and ethical impacts, and require educator preparation programs to include computer science, AI, and computational thinking. The House Education Committee bill was placed on the House calendar with no further recorded action.

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• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement
• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Adds AI to educator preparation or licensure

Requires the State Board to create a statewide digital privacy agreement governing software students use in public schools. The agreement bars vendors from using student data to train machine-learning models for unrelated commercial purposes and from using AI to analyze student emotions or behavior except for listed academic purposes, and requires vendors to disclose AI components.

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• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Sets procurement or vetting standards for AI tools

Sets a final Secretary's Supplemental Priority on meaningful learning opportunities for use in Department grant competitions, including high-impact tutoring programs whose innovative delivery models may include artificial intelligence.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Establishes consumer protection requirements for AI systems used in consumer interactions and consequential decisions, which include education admissions and educational opportunities. Requires disclosures, a duty of reasonable care against algorithmic discrimination, risk management programs and impact assessments for high-risk AI systems, and rights to correction, appeal, and human review.

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• Regulates AI in admissions decisions
• Requires bias review or equitable access

Requires the State Board of Education to establish an Artificial-Intelligence Use in Education Commission to recommend best practices and policies for smartphone and AI use in schools, including model policies on student use of generative AI in and out of the classroom. The commission files reports twice a year and dissolves after its fourth report; the section is repealed January 1, 2030.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy

Directs the joint legislative audit and review committee to audit financial aid fraud at institutions of higher education, including systemic weaknesses that allow fictitious student enrollment through the use of artificial intelligence. Requires a report with findings and recommendations by December 1, 2027.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Requires developers and deployers of algorithmic decision systems to provide disclosures, including notice to individuals affected by decisions about education enrollment or education opportunities, and gives individuals rights to access and correct their data. Requires disclosure of generative AI interactions and makes developers and deployers jointly liable for certain violations.

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• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Authorizes the State Board of Education, subject to appropriation, to provide statewide guidance to school districts on workforce development curriculum or programming with best practices for teaching artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies. Requires the State Board to review technology-focused workforce curricula and programs in other states.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Creates a task force, council, or study

Creates product liability rules for developers and deployers of high-impact and generative artificial intelligence systems, covering defective design, inadequate warnings, and breach of express warranty. High-impact systems are tied to consequential decisions, defined to include decisions significantly affecting an individual's access to education.

Provisions

• Regulates AI in admissions decisions

Creates product liability rules for developers and deployers of high-impact and generative artificial intelligence systems, covering defective design, inadequate warnings, and breach of express warranty. High-impact systems are tied to consequential decisions, defined to include decisions significantly affecting an individual's access to education.

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• Regulates AI in admissions decisions

Requires each public charter school to publish its governing board's policy on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers and staff on its website. Retains the requirement that local boards of education adopt such AI policies and directs them to have each school publish the policy on its website.

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• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Requires each public charter school to publish its governing board's policy on the use of artificial intelligence by students, teachers and staff on its website. Retains the requirement that local boards of education adopt such AI policies and directs them to have each school publish the policy on its website.

Provisions

• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Requires disclosure of AI use to students or families

Establishes product liability causes of action against developers and deployers of certain artificial intelligence systems for defective design, inadequate warnings, and breach of warranty. Consequential decisions under the bill include those affecting an individual's access to education.

Creates the Student Educational Technologies Rights Act giving students and parents rights to opt out of certain educational technologies, request human teacher review of grades generated by AI or automated scoring, and opt out of predictive analytics. Restricts school biometric systems and amends the Student Online Personal Protection Act to limit operators' AI training on students' covered information.

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• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring

Supports Illinois ASCD/PD365 principles on ethical and effective AI use in K-12 classrooms and urges the Illinois State Board of Education to develop statewide guidelines for responsible AI use in education, covering student data protection, algorithmic transparency, bias monitoring, and AI literacy in curricula. Encourages investment in educator professional development and equitable access to technology.

Provisions

• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Authorizes the State Board of Education, subject to appropriation, to provide statewide guidance to school districts on workforce development curriculum or programming with best practices for teaching artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and other emerging technologies. Requires the State Board to review technology-focused workforce curricula and programs in other states.

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• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Creates a task force, council, or study

Would have created the West Virginia Balance Act, requiring the State Board of Education to publish model policies on balanced classroom technology use and on AI use, which county boards would adopt or adapt before July 1, 2027, with the model policy applying by default otherwise. The AI model policy would bar educators from using generative AI to independently grade work or make high-stakes decisions about students. It would also add AI to computer science standards and allow optional high school AI sandbox courses. Introduced and referred to committee; no further action.

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• Adds AI to content standards or frameworks
• Directs an agency to issue guidance or a model policy
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Regulates AI in grading, testing, or proctoring
• Sets academic integrity rules for AI use
• Creates an AI workforce, pathway, or credential program

Amends New Mexico's high school graduation requirements statute to require that ethics of artificial intelligence be offered as a computer science elective beginning with students entering ninth grade in the 2026-2027 school year.

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• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement

Enacts the Parent Data Sovereignty Act of 2026, making parents the owners of their minor children's personally identifiable education data, barring commercial use of student data, and giving parents rights to access, correct, and opt out of data collection, including opting out of predictive analytics models and artificial intelligence training datasets.

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• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data

Establishes a Task Force on Proactive Review of Audio and Video Recordings on Special Education Buses to study the use of artificial intelligence tools to review bus recordings for student safety, including privacy issues and costs. The Task Force must report findings and recommendations by December 1, 2026.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Creates an Artificial Intelligence in Education Task Force chaired by the State Superintendent of Education to evaluate AI applications in K-12 and develop policy recommendations for responsible use by students and educators. The task force must address academic integrity, acceptable use, data privacy, AI in K-12 standards and higher education curricula, educator training guidelines, procurement requirements for AI software, and equitable access.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Creates a Mississippi Dyslexia Generative Artificial Intelligence Education and Workforce Development Program within the Department of Education to develop an open-access dyslexia curriculum and generative AI system for public schools, correctional, adult and workforce education. Directs the department to contract with founding partners for development, research and professional development, and to run pilot programs in at least three public school districts.

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• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development

Authorizes the Department of Education to establish an AI and STEM Education Pilot Program letting school districts use AI-assisted learning tools in grades 6-12 STEM subjects, with priority for underperforming, rural and high-poverty schools. Requires educator professional development, bars use of the tools for teacher evaluation or employment decisions, restricts use of student data, and directs guidelines on algorithmic bias and human oversight.

Provisions

• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Restricts AI vendors' use of student data
• Requires bias review or equitable access

Requires the Department of Education to implement an AI literacy curricula plan and makes a passing grade in an AI literacy course a graduation condition for grades 11 and 12 beginning in 2027-2028. Requires teacher professional development and certification for AI literacy teachers, requires each public school to adopt an AI policy, establishes an advisory council, and creates a three-year AI education grant pilot program.

Provisions

• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Creates an AI course or graduation requirement
• Requires or funds educator AI professional development
• Requires districts or institutions to adopt an AI policy
• Appropriates funding, creates a grant program, or sets grant priorities

Amends the School Code's bullying provisions to require escalating interventions for persistent bullying and investigations after a student's death by suicide. Adds definitions of artificial intelligence and unauthorized digital replica to the school bullying section.

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• Addresses deepfakes involving students or staff

Bans student use of electronic telecommunication devices during instructional hours and requires the Department of Education to develop and administer a K-12 social media and artificial intelligence literacy curriculum. Requires the department to review the restrictions and the literacy curriculum and report to the legislature.

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• Requires AI literacy instruction
• Creates a task force, council, or study

Extends school facility hardship provisions to wildfire, flood, and other emergencies, and authorizes the State Department of Education, the State Architect, and the State Allocation Board to use machine learning to automate nondiscretionary permitting steps for these school projects, and school districts to use machine learning to prepare permitting documents.

Practical guide for faculty, instructional designers, and academic leaders on using AI in teaching while following system and institutional governance and data security requirements. It covers guiding principles, classroom applications, AI-aware assessment and integrity expectations, data privacy checks, and piloting.

Adds members to the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council, including a public education representative, extends the Council to 2030, and directs it to review professional guidance and report on ways government can promote ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence in health and human services and in education. Also requires disclosure of generative AI use to consumers.

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• Creates a task force, council, or study

Regulates how businesses collect, share, and sell Vermont consumers' personal data, and requires data loyalty assessments of covered algorithms that use machine learning or artificial intelligence, including steps to mitigate harms in determining access to education and other opportunities.

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• Requires bias review or equitable access