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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced October 28, 2025 by Bill Cassidy · Last progress October 28, 2025
Directs the Department of Education to prioritize K–12 AI research in the SBIR program to support personalized learning and to set clear definitions for AI and education terms. Establishes a voluntary "Golden Seal" privacy certification for schools that use instant verification and parent consent tools, strengthens and expands student privacy protections in FERPA (including new notice/opt-out rules for directory information, limits on facial recognition and yearbook data use, and a broader definition of education records), and requires stronger vendor-contract transparency, a public vendor-violation list, a federally supported privacy technical assistance center with voluntary safe harbors for compliant vendors, and teacher training and ESEA updates to cover classroom AI use and related risks.
Imposes new compliance and reporting duties on K–12 schools, state agencies, and ed‑tech vendors (with specific timelines for rulemaking, certifications, and effective dates), aims to curb facial-recognition use in schools, and steers federal small-business AI R&D toward privacy-protective, classroom-integrated tools.