{"id":342693,"date":"2026-09-10T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342693\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T10:18:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-nyc-students-head-back-to-school-with-new-ai-restrictions-and-screen-time-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342693\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nyc Students Head Back To School With New Ai Restrictions And Screen Time Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thousands of students across New York City are heading back to school for the start of a new academic year.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of the biggest changes this year is a new policy limiting the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for students in grades 2K through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New screen-time guidelines are also being introduced.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Students in grades three through five will be limited to 30 minutes of screen time per day, while middle school students will be limited to 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Students in second grade and younger will not have individual screen time under the new guidelines.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">School officials said students with disabilities and English language learners will continue to have access to assistive technology.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The district also emphasized that AI will not replace teachers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels is expected to visit several schools Thursday to mark the first day of the school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of students across New York City are heading back to school for the start of a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-342693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342693","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=342693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}