Cajon Valley superintendent outlines draft AI policy as board completes first reading

Superintendent David Miyashiro told trustees the district has been piloting internal AI tools and has drafted an updated technology policy to govern employee and student use.

Miyashiro said the district's approach focuses on "sanctioned" systems that the district configures and controls. "The difference between these tools and ChatGPT... is we control what the language model knows. So it cannot produce anything that's not factual or that's unsafe, and it cannot take any data that we put into it and put it out into the universe," he said, describing the internal "thought partner" tools used in lesson planning and principal support.

Trustees and community members raised procedural and privacy concerns during the first reading. One trustee requested parental consent for student use even when a tool is district‑sanctioned; another asked that the board post the district's vetting and approval process publicly so parents can review it before signing permission forms. Staff responded that technology use agreements and existing parent permission materials capture many of these items but agreed that clearer public documentation would help.

Because trustees requested time for additional review and public transparency, the motion to adopt the policy on first reading was withdrawn and the item will return for a second reading after a planned board workshop.

Ending: The first reading established the policy framework and guardrails for district AI use while leaving final adoption for a later meeting after additional public and board review.