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Raytown board approves $12,350 purchase of SchoolAI staff licenses after presentation on generative AI
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The Raytown Quality School District board approved a $12,350 purchase of staff licenses for SchoolAI after district staff described a pilot, security features and a March–April staff training plan and proposed a ninth–twelfth grade rollout next school year.
The Raytown Quality School District Board of Education approved a $12,350 purchase of staff licenses for SchoolAI after a presentation from district staff about how the district would use generative artificial intelligence in classrooms.
District instructional technology coordinator Amanda Cahill told the board staff and students tested two platforms and recommended SchoolAI because it offered a “walled off garden” that would keep district content inside the district: “The main thing about this tool was that it is a walled off garden. So it is just learning about our district and what we put into it, and no 1 outside of us will learn any of that information.”
The recommendation, offered during the board’s Feb. 10 meeting, covers staff licenses for the remainder of the 2024–25 school year and the 2025–26 school year. A motion to purchase the licenses was made and approved; the board chair declared the motion passed after the recorded verbal roll call listed one…
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