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United ISD proposes AI limits, tighter handbook language on ride-sharing and transfers
Summary
United ISD staff presented proposed updates to the student handbook and related guidance that would add artificial intelligence to the district's academic misconduct rules, bar ride-hailing pickups on campus for safety, and clarify transfer deadlines and procedures ahead of the 2025-26 school year.
United Independent School District staff told the board at a June workshop they plan to add explicit prohibitions and guidance on student use of artificial intelligence in the 2025-26 student handbook and to tighten language on transfers and campus pickups.
The changes are framed as part of an annual handbook update and follow work by a district AI task force and feedback from principals, staff and students, officials said. Assistant Superintendent for Technology Hector Perez and other staff described tools the district will use and the training plans for principals and teachers.
Why it matters: the handbook sets daily expectations for more than 40,000 students across the district and the AI language would become the baseline for how teachers and campuses enforce academic honesty and accept…
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