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VDOE frames AI guidance and ramps educator training while districts raise privacy and procurement concerns
Summary
The Department of Education reviewed executive guidance and K–12 standards integration for artificial intelligence, reported statewide training, and fielded district concerns about student data privacy and vendor procurement for AI tools.
Felipso Gilstrap, associate director of the Office of Educational Technology and Classroom Innovation at the Virginia Department of Education, told committee members that state work on artificial intelligence includes an executive order, statewide guidance and the explicit integration of AI concepts into recent Standards of Learning updates.
Gilstrap said Executive Order 30 directed the department to develop AI tools and instructional resources and that VDOE published AI education guidelines intended to promote ethical, privacy‑aware and instructional uses of AI. “The guidelines were then written. They were published in December of ’23,” he said. He added that the guidance stresses that AI should “support education and not replace humans.”
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