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On September 9, Microsoft, the AFT and UFT announced a standard that districts can incorporate into Microsoft customer agreements. It prohibits using student or educator data to train AI, selling or repurposing that data, student tracking and unsupervised…
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An outside group accessed Springfield Public Schools’ network and blocked essential online programs. The district classified it as a Level 4 severe incident and closed schools Tuesday through…
Read the story 1 min readGovernor Newsom signed a 13-bill child-technology package on September 10. It includes independent safety assessments and parental controls for companion chatbots, restrictions on addictive…
Read the story 1 min readMore than 600 participants joined an AASA town hall on September 10 as the FCC considers narrowing, geographically limiting, restructuring or potentially ending parts of E-rate. The program…
Read the story 1 min readMissouri and Google announced no-cost enterprise AI tools, training and credentials for nearly 100,000 educators and more than 1.1 million K–12 and higher-education students. Offerings include…
Read the story 1 min readState dispute-resolution agencies report receiving lengthy filings containing incorrect IDEA interpretations, erroneous filing requirements and hallucinated case law. Evidence linking AI to…
Read the story 1 min readMathspace disclosed that attackers exploited an unpatched vulnerability in its self-hosted Metabase reporting environment. The flaw was patched by Metabase on August 6; unauthorized access began…
Read the story 1 min readFor 108,000 students, Baltimore County reported average daily school-device use of 70–90 minutes in middle school and 75–100 minutes in high school. Grades 3–5 averaged 50–60 minutes; K–2…
Read the story 1 min readJordan School District and SchoolAI reported a 28% increase in a rubric-based measure of critical thinking across 13,882 student-AI conversations involving 82 teachers over two years.…
Read the story 1 min readCompare current AI contract language with the Microsoft/AFT standard and California AB 1159.
Run a health-record and family-communications downtime exercise.
Issue special-education AI guidance covering redaction, verification and approved tools.
Quantify E-rate exposure by service category and prepare evidence for an October filing.
Establish application-level device-use and value metrics.
Require critical-patch escalation and inactive-data deletion evidence from high-risk vendors.
Whether other major AI vendors accept Microsoft-equivalent contractual remedies.
Implementation and litigation around California’s new child-technology laws.
Independent replication of Jordan’s reported AI outcomes.
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