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District staff propose multiple curricular renewals; board questions SchoolAI privacy and licensing
Summary
Curriculum staff presented 16 bundled curricular and software items — including expansions of IXL and NWEA, renewals of assessment platforms and a proposed SchoolAI district license — and asked to move the package to the March 24 board meeting. Board members asked for clearer contract language on license counts, age-based protections and machine-learning/data retention safeguards for SchoolAI.
Curriculum staff presented a package of 16 curricular and software items to the Instruction & Student Services committee on March 10 and asked the board to move the set to the full board for approval at the end-of-month meeting.
The package included renewals and expansions for assessment and instructional platforms (Accelerated Reader, Edpuzzle, ESGI, Formative, IXL, Kami, NWEA MAP, Membean, Mystery Science), teacher licenses for early-childhood resources, partnership agreements (e.g., Millersville University student-teaching affiliation), and a new enterprise generative-AI product described in materials as "SchoolAI." Staff said SchoolAI was the best option the curriculum team had found in terms of price, classroom utility and data protections after a year of pilots and vendor vetting. "SchoolAI would be our generative artificial intelligence tool for next year," the curriculum presenter said.
Board members asked for clarity on licensing counts (the presenter described roughly 6,400 licenses) and whether the district would share personally identifiable information or allow the vendor to retain queries for machine learning. One board member asked, "Does it have to forget every query when the query is done, or does it get to keep that?" Staff said the district intends an enterprise, district‑confined subscription and that vendors have agreed to data-protection agreements, but that specific contract limitations and internal policies will be worked out with IT and legal staff and further training is planned for teachers.
After discussion, the committee approved forwarding items 3.01–3.16 to the full board for action on March 24. Staff said they will circulate midyear AI-tool guidance to faculty and develop administrative procedures about institutional data use and age‑appropriate protections before districtwide rollout.
What's next: Curriculum contracts and the SchoolAI purchase will appear on the March 24 board agenda; staff will continue vetting data protections and finalize contract language for board review.
