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District staff outline AI policy 5840, urge guided use and staff training before formal vote
Summary
Technology committee leaders recommended a cautious but permissive approach to artificial intelligence in classrooms and administration: adopt responsible-use rules, require training and pilot guarded/embedded AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot; staff recommended tabling formal adoption for public review.
District technology staff and board leaders discussed an artificial intelligence framework and a draft Policy 5840 at the board work session, describing a recommended approach that permits supervised use while building training, content filtering and approval workflows.
Ray Ranieri, who led the technology committee presentation, summarized several vendor and higher-education engagements and described two broad policy paths the committee considered: a highly restrictive ban on student AI use (dismissed), and a managed-use policy that allows directed, supervised AI applications coupled with training, approval and content controls. Ranieri said the recommended path emphasizes planned classroom use, staff training in “prompting” and the deployment of embedded, task-specific tools rather than an unrestricted, open-chat model.
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