New York City’s one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI through eighth grade is more than a restriction on classroom technology. It shows how quickly district AI policy is moving from broad rules to operational controls. As AI becomes embedded inside tools schools already use, leaders will need to decide not only which products belong in classrooms, but which capabilities should be active, for whom, and under what conditions.

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For years, district technology governance has largely revolved around the product. A tool clears procurement, privacy, security and instructional review, then enters the approved software catalog. Another tool fails that process and stays out.

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