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Hillsborough schools outline AI safeguards, approved classroom tools and family resources
Summary
District technology leaders described privacy safeguards (FERPA/COPPA compliance and data‑ownership agreements), listed approved AI tools (SchoolAI, NotebookLM, Gemini with educational licensing) and pointed families to a new online AI hub with guides and simulations.
Assistant Superintendent Joel Handler said the district requires any platform used with students to be FERPA and COPPA compliant and to sign data‑privacy agreements that keep student data under district control. "All that data is owned by the district," Handler said, adding that the district will not allow vendors to use student inputs to train external models.
Dan Gallagher, the district's supervisor of instructional technology, described a newly added AI hub on the district website with family guides,…
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