The Council Rock School District finance committee on Sept. 11 heard a detailed presentation from Magic School and district technology staff about expanding a year‑long pilot of Magic School’s AI platform for classroom use.

Haley Grossman, an account executive at Magic School, said the platform has been used by “at least 527 educators” in the pilot and that district users created more than 12,000 resources; she described a roughly 400% usage increase during the spring pilot period. Grossman told the committee that Magic School’s tools are built on large language models but that, in the company’s architecture, “none of the information put into Magic School is ever used to train large language models.” She added that tools include educationally focused prompts and safeguards, and that Magic School is “fully FERPA compliant.”

District staff described how the Council Rock AI guidelines guided the vendor choice. Andrea Mangold, district communications, said the district vetted tools for student‑data protection and that the tech integration specialists recommended Magic School because of its student safeguards and administrative controls. Mangold said the district had pilot access at no cost and that administrators will present formal AI guidelines and implementation expectations to the board at an education committee meeting the following week.

Officials described administrative controls and classroom moderation: teachers set student access to Magic Student rooms and choose which tools students may use, and district administrators can moderate tools and review student and teacher usage via dashboards. Andrea Mangold and Haley Grossman said data for the district instance is hosted in the United States on Amazon Web Services and that the district owns the data; Grossman said personally identifiable information is scrubbed if entered and that deletions can be performed on request.

The administration said a three‑year enterprise contract is budgeted: a prorated first year at $43,995, year two at $60,690 and year three at $63,630. The vendor is offering in‑person and virtual professional development sessions—described by staff as $5,500 in training value—at no additional cost to the district as part of the agreement. Committee members discussed teacher professional development and phased student rollout; no formal committee vote to approve the contract was recorded during the meeting.