State AI guidance names the risks. Who gets a voice?
Researchers studied public school AI guidance from 35 states and Puerto Rico. Privacy and schoolwork rules appear in 97% of the documents; fair access appears in 86%. Only five list students as contributors, and none list parents. Those lists do not show every informal conversation or how a district acts.
What the source reports
Memon and colleagues reviewed public K-12 AI guidance from 35 states and Puerto Rico. They found privacy and academic integrity in 97% of sampled documents and fair access in 86%. Yet plans for who does the work and who answers for results were less specific. Five documents list students as contributors; none list parents. That count describes written contributor lists, not all talks that may have taken place. The research looks at published guidance. It does not show how a Texas district puts a policy into practice or whether any school meets its own goals.
Original source
- Title
- U.S. State Guidance on AI in K-12 Education: A Comparative Content and Citation Analysis
- Author
- Shahan Ali Memon, Anna-Maria Gueorguieva, Anukriti Kumar, Lucy Lu Wang, Jevin D. West, Nic Weber
- Publication
- arXiv cs.CY
- Date
- Thursday, November 5, 2026