"The San Francisco Unified School District was all set to approve a contract to provide "ChatGPT EDU" to 12,000 users across the district at the Feb. 10 school board meeting. The order form was signed by the district's technology services officer on Jan. 22, and countersigned by OpenAI's head of education four days later. Then the district nixed it from the agenda. Why?"
"It is unclear how much the contract would have cost the district. It would have applied for one year, from Feb. 2, 2026, to Feb. 1 next year, but the price of the agreement was redacted from a document shared with the school board, as was a bullet point discussing the terms of the contract. ChatGPT Edu provides access to OpenAI's flagship AI model for use in the classroom and by administrators."
San Francisco Unified School District planned to approve a ChatGPT EDU contract for 12,000 users at a Feb. 10 board meeting. The district's order form was signed Jan. 22 by the technology services officer and countersigned by OpenAI's head of education four days later. The district removed the contract from the agenda after board members raised concerns about heavily redacted cost and term details. The district stated the proposal would provide staff ChatGPT accounts and free training and would not involve financial cost to the district, though the contract price was redacted. ChatGPT Edu provides access to OpenAI's flagship AI model for classroom and administrative use, and a similar California State University agreement reportedly cost $15 million for 500,000 users for one year.
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