Learning & Training DesignChalkbeat New YorkmajorSep 2, 2026
New York City is set to bar student-facing AI tools through eighth grade
Chalkbeat, citing Education Department documents and four people briefed on the plans, reports that the largest school system in the country will bar generative AI — chatbots and AI tutors — for students from pre-K through eighth grade.
Anyone building or selling a learning product now has to say which side of a grade-level line it sits on, and the biggest district in the country just drew one.