{"slug": "across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy", "title": "Across the US, School Districts Wrestle With Classroom AI Policy", "summary": "School districts across the United States are issuing new policies on classroom AI ahead of the new school year, with New York City banning most student-facing AI in K-8 classes while allowing limited approved tools for high schoolers, and Los Angeles imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for its estimated 378,000 students. The announcements were discussed by Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo and audio reporter Laura Karpas, who covered the matters for Tech Policy Press this summer.", "body_md": "Just ahead of the start of the new school year, districts across the United States are [issuing new policies](https://www.techpolicy.press/in-the-us-caution-rules-on-ai-ahead-of-k12-school-year/) on the use of artificial intelligence applications in classrooms. Last Wednesday, New York City [effectively banned](https://www.techpolicy.press/americas-two-largest-school-districts-impose-ai-moratoriums/) most student facing AI in all K-8th grade classes while allowing a limited set of approved tools to be used for high schoolers for the upcoming school year. And on the same day, Los Angeles school officials announced the district was placing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for all of its estimated 378,000 students.\n\nTo learn more about these announcements and the politics driving them, **Justin Hendrix** spoke to two individuals who covered these matters for Tech Policy Press this summer: Tech Policy Press fellow **Chris Mills Rodrigo** and audio reporter **Laura Karpas,** who interned at Tech Policy Press this summer and is currently a graduate student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy", "canonical_source": "https://techpolicy.press/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy", "published_at": "2026-09-08 13:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 20:54:17.190063+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["New York City", "Los Angeles", "Tech Policy Press", "Chris Mills Rodrigo", "Laura Karpas", "Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/across-the-us-school-districts-wrestle-with-classroom-ai-policy.jsonld"}}