OpenAI has expanded its free ChatGPT for Teachers program to 55 additional school systems across 20 U.S. states, bringing the initiative to more than 100,000 additional educators and staff.
The expansion raises OpenAI’s total partnerships to over 100 K-12 educational organizations in 30 states, providing free access and training to more than 300,000 educators and staff. The new group of partnerships includes one in five of the 20 largest public school districts in the United States. ChatGPT for Teachers remains free for verified U.S. K-12 educators through June 2028 and is available exclusively to administrators, faculty, and educators.
OpenAI has established data privacy agreements covering 16 states through the Student Data Privacy Consortium framework, including Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. California is covered by a separate agreement. Data shared within a ChatGPT for Teachers workspace is not used to train OpenAI’s models by default.
Between January 1 and July 16, educators sent over 1.9 million task-related messages, including 900,000 about report cards and progress reports, 800,000 about lesson planning, and more than 100,000 about substitute teacher plans and teacher assessment materials.
OpenAI is conducting hands-on AI skills sessions in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation during the northern hemisphere summer, involving more than 1,600 teachers, administrators, and school district leaders. Of participating teachers, 93% reported they left with actionable skills, while 96% planned to apply what they learned within 30 days. The company is also collaborating with the American Federation of Teachers on the National Academy for AI Instruction, a five-year initiative designed to train 400,000 K-12 educators in artificial intelligence skills.
