Board adopts district AI policy setting age-based use, privacy and coordinator role
The board voted to adopt a DCPS artificial-intelligence policy that sets age-based expectations for student use, requires privacy and cybersecurity reviews, maintains human staff responsibility for consequential decisions, and creates an AI coordinator and use-plan process.
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Mister Wallace presented the division’s proposed AI policy, which combines elements of a locally developed draft and the VSBA model policy. Key points included age-appropriate student-use expectations (elementary—teacher-guided; middle—structured and teacher-directed; high school—limited independent use when appropriate), academic-integrity provisions requiring teacher direction and disclosure where applicable, and strengthened privacy and cybersecurity safeguards requiring review before staff enter student information into AI tools.
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