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The practices by which schools and districts vet, purchase, and monitor education technology, including audits and rules on vendors' AI features.
The largest US district bars generative AI for teaching through eighth grade and companion chatbots for every student, which leaves five metered high school pilots covering 5% of enrollment as the only way in.
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The pause itself runs twelve months, which any vendor with a balance sheet can wait out. The tool-by-tool procurement review running alongside it is what decides whether the seats are still there afterwards.
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The American Federation of Teachers got Microsoft to bar training on student data, ban companion features built for emotional attachment and accept outside audits. District buyers now have a written term sheet to put to every other vendor.
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Natasha Singer's new book Coding Kids documents 15 years of vendor-written classroom material, including Advanced Placement courses built on Swift and Minecraft. The AI offers reaching schools now take the same route.
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Mamdani's one-year moratorium covers elementary and middle school, leaves five high school pilots running, and switches off AI features in software the city already bought. Vendors now negotiate in public.
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