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K-12 Is Adopting AI Policies Faster Than It Can Enforce Them

A wave of district-level AI policy adoption is outrunning the data governance infrastructure needed to make those policies legally enforceable under FERPA and state privacy law.

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The Audit Trail Underneath the School AI Contract

Contracts are filling the gap FERPA and COPPA left open, but without NIST AI RMF or ISO 42001 documentation behind them, institutions still can't verify vendor claims.