AI Guidance for Schools by State: All 50 and DC

In short

According to Code.org (2025), 2025 State of AI + CS Education, 17 states have official school AI guidance that emphasizes computer science as fundamental to AI literacy: Alabama, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Iowa was in progress. The report counts 34 states with AI guidance of some kind. Modern Age Coders teaches this live online for US students, in a batch or one to one, and the first class is free.

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Every state and DC

State AI guidance for schools, state by state

The middle column is Code.org’s policy status. The right column is our short summary of what each state’s report page says about AI guidance; "Not stated" means the page does not name any state AI guidance, which is not the same as the state having none.

State AI guidance for K-12 schools, from Code.org (2025), 2025 State of AI + CS Education (read 17 October 2026)
State	Guidance treats CS as fundamental to AI	What the report page says (our summary)
Alabama	Yes	State AI policy template recognizes CS as fundamental
Alaska	No	Strategic Framework for AI in K-12 Education; CS role not yet clarified
Arizona	No	State AI guidance describes how CS standards relate to AI literacy
Arkansas	No	Not stated; the state offers an AI course in data science topics
California	Yes	CS a core part of K-12 AI education; an AI Working Group under SB 1288 (2024)
Colorado	Yes	Guidance recommends AI literacy in local graduation requirements
Connecticut	No	Guidance on practice and risks; AI literacy not yet addressed
Delaware	No	Generative AI guidance; CS role not yet clarified
District of Columbia	No	Not stated
Florida	No	Not stated; a K-12 AI Education Task Force defines AI literacy
Georgia	No	Guidance covers educator learning; CS not yet addressed
Hawaii	Yes	Guidance pairs AI literacy with CS education
Idaho	No	Not stated
Illinois	No	SB 1920 (2025) requires statewide AI guidance
Indiana	Yes	Guidance calls for integrating AI and CS
Iowa	In progress	Not stated
Kansas	No	Not stated; course descriptions combine AI and CS
Kentucky	Yes	Guidance places CS at the center of AI literacy
Louisiana	No	House and Board of Education resolutions on AI education
Maine	Yes	AI Guidance Toolkit roots AI understanding in CS
Maryland	No	Not stated; a funded AI needs assessment and task force
Massachusetts	Yes	Guidance aligns AI literacy with state CS standards
Michigan	No	Guidance by Michigan Virtual, endorsed by the department
Minnesota	No	Guidance defines AI literacy; CS role not yet clarified
Mississippi	No	Not stated; a statewide AI task force
Missouri	No	Guidance informed by the state CS Advisory Council
Montana	Yes	Guidance says AI in education needs a foundation including coding
Nebraska	No	Not stated
Nevada	No	Guidance defines AI literacy; CS role not yet clarified
New Hampshire	No	Not stated
New Jersey	No	Not stated; grants for teaching with and about AI
New Mexico	No	Not stated
New York	No	Not stated
North Carolina	Yes	Guidance includes designing AI solutions
North Dakota	No	Not stated
Ohio	Yes	Guidance links AI to technology and CS standards
Oklahoma	Yes	Guidance calls CS essential to AI literacy
Oregon	No	Guidance ties how AI functions to CS; role not yet clarified
Pennsylvania	No	Not stated
Rhode Island	Yes	Guidance promotes AI literacy and CS for all students
South Carolina	No	Not stated; an AI education task force
South Dakota	No	Not stated
Tennessee	No	A state law requires every district to set AI policies
Texas	No	Not stated
Utah	Yes	Guidance clarifies the CS role; an AI Education Specialist
Vermont	No	Not stated
Virginia	No	Not stated; AI literacy training for educators
Washington	No	Guidance does not yet clarify the CS role
West Virginia	Yes	Guidance emphasizes CS as fundamental to AI literacy
Wisconsin	Yes	Guidance says AI should be taught across subjects, including CS
Wyoming	Yes	Guidance says AI literacy includes elements of CS

Source: Code.org (2025). 2025 State of AI + CS Education, state report pages, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The middle column is our reading of each published toggle and matches the report’s total of 17; the right column is our paraphrase of each page. Data were finalized on December 1, 2025, so newer guidance is not reflected. We are not connected with Code.org (now CodeAI) or any state agency.

The seventeen

What the strongest state guidance says

To count, the report’s rubric needs "official guidance endorsed by the state education agency that emphasizes the fundamental role of CS education in AI literacy". Here is how some of the seventeen put it.

How selected states connect AI literacy and computer science, as described in the 2025 report
State	How the guidance connects AI and CS
Maine	An AI Guidance Toolkit says students need a basic understanding of AI "rooted in foundational computer science and computational thinking"
Hawaii	Separates using AI tools (AI literacy) from how AI works (CS), and says students need both
Kentucky	Positions digital citizenship and CS as central to AI literacy, and calls on all schools to offer CS
Oklahoma	Calls CS education essential to understanding how AI systems work, what they can do and their limits
Colorado	Recommends local graduation requirements include AI literacy, data literacy and ethical AI use
North Carolina	Defines AI literacy to include designing AI solutions, not only using them

The other seventeen

The report puts it bluntly: "only 17 of the 34 states that have AI guidance emphasize CS". The rest mostly address responsible use, academic integrity and teacher practice.

Several of those pages are close. Alaska, Delaware, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Washington all have guidance that the report says does not yet clarify the role of computer science.

Laws, not just guidance

Some states moved by statute. Ohio’s budget bill required that "all school districts adopt an AI policy by July 2026". The report also notes "Senate Bill 1711 requires all public school districts to create AI policies" in Tennessee, and an Illinois law requiring statewide AI guidance.

A district AI policy usually governs how tools may be used. Whether students learn how AI works is a separate curriculum question.

Using vs learning

Two kinds of AI guidance, and why the difference matters

CodeAI separates "AI education", students learning about AI, from "AI in education", the adoption or regulation of AI tools. Most state guidance began with the second.

AI in education vs AI education (our summary of CodeAI’s distinction)
Question	AI in education	AI education
What it covers	Rules for using AI tools in school	Teaching how AI systems work
Typical topics	Privacy, academic integrity, teacher use	Data, models, bias, design, limits
Who it mainly guides	Administrators and teachers	Curriculum and course design
Where CS fits	Rarely mentioned	The foundation

Why the report cares about CS

The 10 Policies page says its references to AI education "are intended to describe students learning about AI not the adoption or regulation of AI tools." A student who can only prompt a chatbot has learned a tool; a student who knows what data, models and probability are can judge any tool.

That is why the report counts only guidance that treats computer science as fundamental.

What it means at home

If your state’s guidance is mostly about use, your child’s school may teach AI rules without teaching AI. Families can fill that gap with a short, age-appropriate course on how models learn.

Age rules still apply. Many AI products set minimum ages in their own terms, and some are for adults only. We never place an under-18 student on an adults-only tool.

Questions to ask

Six questions to ask your child’s school about AI

Our list for a parent-teacher conference or a school board meeting. None needs technical knowledge to ask.

Which AI tools may students use, and from what grade? Ask whether the school checked each tool’s own age terms.
How is AI use in homework judged? Ask for the written rule on disclosure and on what counts as the student’s own work.
Is there any lesson on how AI works? Not how to use it, but what data and training are.
Does a computer science course cover AI? In many states, CS course descriptions now include AI topics.
What does the district AI policy say? Ohio and Tennessee, among others, now require districts to have one.
Who decides when guidance changes? State guidance is being revised quickly, so ask how families will hear about updates.

Elementary

Focus on what AI is and is not, and on never sharing personal details with any tool.

Middle school

Ask whether students learn that AI can be confidently wrong, and how to check.

High school

Ask about disclosure rules, AP and college expectations, and whether a CS course covers AI.

How AI decides

A tiny AI in twelve lines of Python

This is the kind of lesson the seventeen states are pointing at: not using an AI, but building the simplest one and watching it go wrong. Our example uses only the Python standard library.

nearest_fruit.py (our example)Python 3

import math

# (weight in grams, width in cm) and a label: our made-up training examples
examples = [
    ((150, 7.0), "apple"),
    ((170, 7.5), "apple"),
    ((130, 7.4), "orange"),
    ((120, 6.8), "orange"),
    ((190, 8.0), "apple"),
]

def predict(fruit):
    nearest = min(examples, key=lambda ex: math.dist(ex[0], fruit))
    return nearest[1], round(math.dist(nearest[0], fruit), 2)

print(predict((165, 7.4)))
print(predict((125, 7.0)))
print(predict((142, 9.5)))

Output: ('apple', 5.0), ('orange', 5.0), ('apple', 8.38). The first two answers look sensible. The third is the lesson: a fruit 9.5 cm wide, wider than anything in the data, is called an apple almost entirely because of its weight.

What the student learns

The model "learns" nothing but stored examples, and decides by distance. math.dist measures how far apart two points are, and min with a key picks the closest example.

Grams run into the hundreds while centimetres stay under ten, so weight swamps width in the distance. Real systems rescale their inputs for exactly this reason.

Why this beats a chatbot demo

A student who has seen a model fail for a reason they can name will ask better questions of any AI tool: what data was it trained on, and what did it pay attention to?

That habit is what guidance treating CS as fundamental is after, and it needs no adult-only product at all.

Where students are

Four stages of AI understanding

How students usually progress, from using AI to understanding it.

Stages of AI understanding (ours)
Stage	What it looks like
1. User	Has seen AI tools and thinks they simply know things
2. Skeptic	Knows AI can be wrong and checks its answers
3. Explainer	Can say how training data shapes a model’s output
4. Builder	Has trained and tested a small model of their own

For parents

Stage 2 is the most important step for younger children, and it needs no account on any AI product.

Stages 3 and 4 are where computer science comes in.

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Try breaking the fruit example: add a strange fruit and see what it predicts.

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AI literacy for kids

What AI is, and is not.

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Python and AI for kids

First smart projects.

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Data science for teens

The data behind AI.

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Visual machine learning

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III

Foundations

Computer science first

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Python for teens

The language of most AI work.

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AP CS Principles

Data, algorithms and impact.

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Questions from families

State AI guidance for schools: common questions

How many states have AI guidance for schools?

The 2025 State of AI + CS Education report from Code.org counts 34 states with AI guidance, and 17 whose guidance emphasizes computer science as fundamental to AI literacy.

Which states treat computer science as fundamental to AI?

Alabama, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Iowa was in progress.

If my state shows No, does it have no AI guidance?

Not necessarily. No means the guidance did not meet the report's test of treating CS as fundamental, or did not exist. Alaska, Delaware and Minnesota, for example, have guidance that the report says does not yet clarify the CS role.

Does any state require an AI course to graduate?

No. The 2025 report counts zero of 50 states with an AI plus computer science graduation requirement.

Do districts have to write AI policies?

In some states, yes. The report notes an Ohio budget provision requiring every district to adopt an AI policy by July 2026, and a Tennessee law requiring district AI policies.

What is the difference between AI education and AI in education?

AI education means students learning how AI works. AI in education means rules for using AI tools in school. CodeAI uses the terms this way, and most early state guidance covered the second.

Is it safe for my child to use AI tools?

It depends on the tool and the child's age. Many AI products set minimum ages in their terms, and some are adults only. Check the terms, and keep personal details out of any tool.

How do you teach AI to children?

From the inside: data, examples, simple models the student builds and breaks, using only age-appropriate tools. We never put an under-18 student on an adults-only product.

When are classes?

Weekdays or weekends, flexible: choose your batch, or for a very personalised plan choose 1-on-1 at your convenience, weekend mornings or weekdays.

Are you connected with Code.org or a state department?

No. We run our own classes and only report what these organisations have published, with links to the originals.

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Three courses that teach AI from the inside

AI literacy for kids

Python and AI for kids

AI and machine learning for teens

State AI guidance for schools, state by state

What the strongest state guidance says

The other seventeen

Laws, not just guidance

Two kinds of AI guidance, and why the difference matters

Why the report cares about CS

What it means at home

Six questions to ask your child’s school about AI

Elementary

Middle school

High school

A tiny AI in twelve lines of Python

What the student learns

Why this beats a chatbot demo

Four stages of AI understanding

For parents

For students

Nine courses for understanding and building AI

Younger learners

AI literacy for kids

Python and AI for kids

Vibe coding for kids

Teens

AI and machine learning

Data science for teens

Visual machine learning

Foundations

Python for teens

AP CS Principles

Statistics and probability

AI taught as a subject, not a shortcut

Age-checked tools

How, not just what

Build and break

Honest use

Any state

Two formats

AI and coding projects by our students

NutriLife

Misti

GuardianX

SkyCast

Fees

Rated 4.9 across 547 Google reviews

State AI guidance for schools: common questions

How many states have AI guidance for schools?

Which states treat computer science as fundamental to AI?

If my state shows No, does it have no AI guidance?

Does any state require an AI course to graduate?

Do districts have to write AI policies?

What is the difference between AI education and AI in education?

Is it safe for my child to use AI tools?

How do you teach AI to children?

When are classes?

Are you connected with Code.org or a state department?

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