OpenAI expands ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 districts
OpenAI is extending its free ChatGPT for Teachers product to 55 more U.S. school systems and pairing it with a 16-state data privacy agreement meant to remove district-by-district procurement negotiations.
OpenAI said it is bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 additional school systems across 20 states, adding more than 100,000 educators and staff. The company now works with over 100 Kâ12 organizations in 30 states, covering more than 300,000 educators and staff. The product launched in 2025 with nearly 150,000 teachers and staff. OpenAI says the new cohort includes one in five of the 20 largest U.S. public school districts.
The more structurally notable piece is procurement. OpenAI is introducing what it calls a first-for-the-industry National Data Privacy Agreement through the Student Data Privacy Consortium framework, with signed General Offers covering 16 states: 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. The aim is to give districts in those states a recognized path to adopt the tool without negotiating individual agreements.
Access remains restricted to verified U.S. Kâ12 administrators, faculty, and educators, and free through June 2028. Workspace data is not used to train OpenAI models by default, and leaders get role-based controls intended to support FERPA requirements.
On usage, OpenAI cites a privacy-preserving analysis from January 1 to July 16 in which educators sent more than 1.9 million messages on time-saving tasks â 900,000 on report cards and progress reports, 800,000 on lesson planning, and over 100,000 each on substitute plans and teacher-evaluation materials.
OpenAI did not disclose pricing plans beyond 2028 or district-level adoption rates.