Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers — a free year of premium Claude for verified US K-12 educators

Verified K-12 teachers in the US who sign up by June 30, 2027 get a full year of premium Claude free, including Claude Code and Cowork, plus a Learning Commons connector that grounds lesson plans in academic standards for all 50 states and curricula like OpenSciEd and Illustrative Mathematics. Training is off for verified teacher accounts, and Anthropic is working with the American Federation of Teachers on student-data protections.

What it means Every frontier lab is now competing for the classroom — free, standards-aligned AI for teachers changes what schools expect from edtech and raises the bar for anyone building education products.