Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts

When we introduced ChatGPT for Teachers in 2025 to nearly 150,000 teachers and staff, our goal was to give educators a secure place to explore AI, understand where it is useful, and help shape how it should be used in education. Today, we are expanding this work to 55 additional school systems across 20 states, bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to over 100,000 more educators and staff.

The new cohort of district partnerships includes 1 in 5 of America’s 20 largest public school districts and some of the country’s most diverse school systems. With this new cohort, OpenAI is now working with more than 100 K–12 organizations across 30 states to provide free access and training to over 300,000 educators and staff.

Alongside this, we’re also announcing a data privacy agreement spanning 16 states, a first for the industry, that provides a common framework for districts to evaluate ChatGPT for Teachers against their student data privacy requirements, helping make responsible AI adoption simpler and more consistent across school systems.

Our work continues to be guided by the belief that AI should support learning, not shortcut it, and educators should remain in control of how AI shapes classroom experiences. In this spirit, ChatGPT for Teachers continues to be available to administrators, faculty, and educators only. ChatGPT for Teachers remains a free tool for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2028.

ChatGPT for Teachers was designed with education-grade privacy, security, and administrative controls. Data shared in a ChatGPT for Teachers workspace is not used to train our models by default, and school and district leaders can bring educators into a managed workspace ⁠ (opens in a new window) with role-based controls designed to support schools’ FERPA requirements.

As AI evolves from answering questions to helping carry out increasingly complex, multi-step workflows, access to tools like ChatGPT alone won’t be enough. Through our shared implementation model, OpenAI is working alongside districts to provide hands-on training, support for district leaders, peer learning across school systems, and ongoing guidance to help educators build the skills and confidence to take advantage of these capabilities. Through this close collaboration, feedback from districts helps OpenAI understand what educators and administrators need next.

Responsible adoption at national scale: ChatGPT for Teachers district partners across the country

For school systems, responsible AI adoption also requires clear privacy protections and a way for district leaders to understand and manage how tools are used.

OpenAI is also expanding the privacy infrastructure that helps districts adopt AI responsibly. We’re introducing a 16-state National Data Privacy Agreement through the Student Data Privacy Consortium ⁠ (opens in a new window) framework, giving districts in participating states a recognized path to evaluate and adopt ChatGPT for Teachers without negotiating separate agreements district by district. This is designed to meet districts and states within the privacy process they already use, adapting to state and local requirements, and making responsible adoption easier.