{"slug": "dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right", "title": "Don’t trust NYC educrats to get anything about AI right", "summary": "New York City's Department of Education halted distribution of its artificial intelligence guidance after backlash from parents and city council members who criticized the lack of a clear plan and potential risks to students. Education Committee Chair Eric Dinowitz and parent groups demanded a moratorium on AI use in schools, citing concerns over student safety, creativity, and critical thinking. The DOE plans to release revised guidance this summer, but critics argue the agency lacks the competence to manage AI implementation.", "body_md": "Kudos to the City Council for listening to parents’ concerns and derailing the Department of Education’s brainless guidance on AI in schools.\n\nThe DOE announced it’s [halting distribution of its artificial intelligence guidance](https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/06/24/nyc-education-department-delays-ai-guidance-after-backlash/) after a fiery joint hearing before the Education and Technology committees.\n\n“The simple fact that these tools are being rolled out without a real plan is egregious,” thundered Education chair Eric Dinowitz.\n\nFor months, [parents complained](https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/business/google-looks-to-bleed-publishers-with-new-ai-partnerships-that-would-cull-their-content/) that the draft AI guidance is confusing and even contradictory as to how teachers and students should use the tech.\n\nOther parents want a two-year “moratorium” on using [AI in public schools,](https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/lifestyle/teachers-parents-and-students-trash-impact-of-ai-in-schools/) righty fearing the tech’s impact on students’ creativity and critical thinking skills, not to mention all the high-profile allegations that chatbots convinced kids to kill others or themselves.\n\nThe Parent Coalition for Student Privacy also slammed the DOE’s failure to disclose when AI is used and which AI products can be used.\n\nDinowitz told The Post that he’s especially annoyed that AI products are “certainly being used by individual schools outside of the districts” that DOE officials testified [under oath] to.\n\nDOE officials say they’ll still release [the AI guidance](https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/business/anthropics-weirdo-ceo-dario-amodei-replaced-by-co-founder-in-high-stakes-white-house-meetings-report/) this summer, but what’s the rush?\n\nMaybe some top educrat needs to earn a private payment from some vendor; maybe the DOE braintrust thinks they can somehow win national prestige for “doing AI right.”\n\nExcept that this is an agency that begins *every *school year failing to get its buses running on time and on the right routes, one that’s still addicted to Chromebooks when the kids need to work with pencil and paper to learn basic skills.\n\nSorry: The DOE should just wait for *someone else* to get it right, and copy that.\n\nChancellor Kamar Samuels should go for a two-year moratorium on *any *AI in the schools (with waivers possible for particular, careful experiments by top-notch teachers).\n\nNo one should trust the bureaucracy that can’t manage to deliver basic literacy and numeracy in city schools to figure out “future tech.”\n\nThe DOE needs to stop pretending it knows what it’s doing.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right", "canonical_source": "https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/opinion/dont-trust-city-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right/", "published_at": "2026-06-27 13:29:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-27 13:40:46.383596+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["New York City Department of Education", "Eric Dinowitz", "Kamar Samuels", "Parent Coalition for Student Privacy", "City Council", "Chalkbeat", "New York Post"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/dont-trust-nyc-educrats-to-get-anything-about-ai-right.jsonld"}}