{"id":335763,"date":"2026-09-02T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335763\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:14:13","slug":"new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-through-middle-school-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/335763\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Public Schools banning AI use through middle school this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">Students in the nation&#8217;s largest school district return to classrooms next week.<\/p>\n<p>ByArthur Jones II  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ABCNews logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/origin-abcnews.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, September 2, 2026 7:54AM<\/p>\n<p>Stream New York&#8217;s #1 news &#8211; AccuWeather &#8211; original content 24\/7<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">New York City Public Schools is banning more than half a million students and teachers from using artificial intelligence for the 2026-2027 academic year, the school district confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The nation&#8217;s largest school district said it will return next week with a sweeping ban on AI for grades 2-K-8th grade, which is the city&#8217;s pre-schoolers through middle schoolers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In a statement to ABC News, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that the city is implementing a moratorium on generative AI for these students and will spend the next year &#8220;studying the impacts of this technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The news comes as some education advocates have pushed for guardrails and formal guidance on AI use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ABC News Internet Ventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in the nation&#8217;s largest school district return to classrooms next week. ByArthur Jones II Wednesday, September 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[126184,3732,531,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-335763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-126184","tag-abc-news","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}