Florida’s State Board of Education adopted rules on 16 September covering AI and education technology in school districts, charter schools and state colleges.
Parents must be told when an AI tool is approved and what it will be used for, and can opt their child in or ask for a non-AI alternative. The rules bar AI designed to meet students’ emotional needs or act as a companion, and stop vendors selling student data or using it to train AI agents.
Tools used from pre-K to grade 5 get extra review, and districts must link buying decisions to evidence that a tool works.
Why it matters: it is one of the most detailed statewide rulebooks for classroom AI in the US.
Source: Florida Department of Education. Also reported by WGCU.