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Lawmakers hear calls for 'guide rails' as Pennsylvania wrestles with classroom AI policy
Summary
Committee members and witnesses urged the state to develop shared frameworks and data privacy rules — citing New York/Arizona models and EU guidance — to prevent 500 districts from adopting wildly different AI practices and to protect students' data.
Lawmakers at the House Education Committee hearing pressed witnesses on how Pennsylvania should regulate classroom uses of artificial intelligence and whether the school code must be rewritten to reflect 21st‑century technology.
Chair Cerisi framed the problem bluntly: much of Pennsylvania's school code predates modern computing and the committee must decide how to write standards so the state's 500 districts do not "all go different ways." He asked witnesses what a statutory approach should…
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