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 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.

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. ChatGPT for Teachers remains a free tool for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2028.

For school systems, responsible AI adoption requires clear privacy protections. We’re introducing a 16-state National Data Privacy Agreement through the Student Data Privacy Consortium framework, covering Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. California is covered separately. Data shared in a workspace is not used to train models by default.