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Board reviews proposed Magic School AI pilot, hears privacy and cost details
Summary
District staff outlined a no-cost pilot of Magic School (an education-focused large language model), described FERPA/COPPA protections and rostered access, and noted a potential $6-per-student enterprise cost if adopted after the pilot.
Kingman Unified School District staff briefed the board on a proposed pilot of Magic School, an education-focused artificial intelligence platform, saying the vendor's enterprise pilot would run at no cost for the district and that there would be no commitment after the pilot ends.
Staff said Magic School includes educator-facing templates, student-facing learning templates, and administrative controls to view prompt histories and restrict non-educational queries. The vendor's written policies were described as covering FERPA and COPPA protections for student data. "They have a robust privacy policy that specifically states that they don't do that because it's in education," staff said about data handling.
The board heard that the enterprise license would cost about $6 per student if continued after the pilot; with roughly 6,659 students districtwide, staff estimated a continuation cost of about $40,000 and said the district intends to seek grant funding rather than use M&O funds. Staff also described rostered access via ClassLink and said the district could control access levels (staff-only, students-and-staff, etc.) and terminate access immediately when employees leave.
Board members pressed on pilot timing and training; staff said the current pilot window (April 30–Sept. 30) could be shifted to include more in-school time and that Magic School offers training resources and synchronous/asynchronous sessions. Staff emphasized granular controls and that the pilot would begin with staff access while students would be limited during the district-controlled pilot phase. No formal vote was recorded at the meeting.
