K-12 District AI Readiness Assessment | JHarris Advisory
Education · Readiness Assessment
K-12 District AI Readiness
Is your district governing AI and protecting student data?
15 questions5 sectionsAbout 8 minutesScored against FERPA, COPPA, PPRA, and state student-data laws
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Teachers are already using AI, and student data is moving into tools no one vetted. This self-check scores your district against FERPA, COPPA, PPRA, and state student-data privacy law, plus the board-adoption readiness behind them.
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1. Policy & board adoption

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1.1
The board has adopted a student-data and AI use policy covering staff and students.
1.2
The policy keeps consequential decisions about students with people, not AI.
1.3
A person owns AI and edtech tool approval, and the policy is reviewed at least annually.

2. Vendors & student data

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2.1
Edtech vendors handling student data are under a compliant data privacy agreement for your state (in California, Education Code § 49073.1).
2.2
No student personal information is entered into public or consumer AI tools.
2.3
There is a current inventory of tools and the student data they touch, including tools teachers adopted directly.

3. Classroom & consent

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3.1
Teachers set clear AI expectations per assignment and address integrity by the learning process, not detector scores.
3.2
Verifiable parental consent is handled for under-13 tools (COPPA), and PPRA survey notices are addressed.
3.3
Families are told, in plain language, how AI is used and what data is involved.

4. Staff, equity & response

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4.1
Staff using AI are trained before use and at least annually.
4.2
High-use tools are reviewed for bias and accessibility (IDEA, Section 504, language access) before going wide.
4.3
There is a plan for a student-data incident, including a vendor breach.

5. Maturity & defensibility

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5.1
Controls scale with how broadly and autonomously AI is used.
5.2
The governance program is aligned with any capability or transformation work underway.
5.3
The district can show a defensible record: policy, agreements, training, inventory.