98 teenagers wrote the AI school rules Washington hasn't
Over a weekend in late July, 98 high-school juniors and seniors — a delegation from every US state — met in a replica of the Senate chamber at Boston's Edward M. Kennedy Institute and passed their own bill on AI in schools, the 'Students First Act', by a lopsided margin. It would require AI literacy teaching wherever schools hand pupils a device, ban AI outright on graded tests, permit it for brainstorming, editing and studying after eighth grade but not for writing assignments, oblige teachers to post their AI rules each semester, and require more than one member of staff to agree before a student is disciplined for suspected AI misuse. The event was hosted with AASA, the school superintendents' association, and Day of AI, a nonprofit from MIT's RAISE initiative.
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