Free for a year: Anthropic gives US K-12 teachers premium Claude
Who: verified K-12 educators in the United States (individual accounts; a schools/districts offering is coming). What: premium Claude free of charge, plus a library of teaching skills, curricula mapped to standards in all 50 states, Claude Code and Cowork, and integrations with nine ed-tech tools including MagicSchool, Canva Education and ASSISTments — under FERPA-aligned teacher terms. How: verify as a teacher through Anthropic's Claude for Teachers portal. Deadline: sign up by June 30, 2027 to get a full year of access.
Why it mattersGoogle wants to train all six million US teachers; now Anthropic is handing them its premium product for free. For educators this is a real, zero-cost chance to build AI skills with school-grade privacy terms. The strings-attached question — what happens when the free year ends — is worth keeping in view.
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