CMS Generative AI Guidance — assignment use levels

Teachers set assignment-specific AI permissions, from AI-free to empowered use; students follow the permitted scope. This is an instructional-use framework, not a districtwide AI ban.

AI governance

Jurisdiction: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools · District
Policy status: Guidance current
Implementation phase: Current
Requirement: Required with local discretion
Grades: All K-12
Audience: Students
Learning evidence: No student-learning claim
Instrument: District administrative guidance

Dates & implementation

August 2025 guidance: teachers specify the permitted AI-use level for each assignment.

A legal effective date can precede school implementation. This record documents policy intent or requirements; it does not independently confirm delivery in every classroom.

Funding & support

Funding details not confirmed

Dedicated funding for this district action has not been verified. Statewide programs do not establish a district award.

Evidence & source location

CMS Generative AI Guidance Updated August 2025, pp.15–16, Student AI Use Framework.

CMS Generative AI Guidance, pp. 16–17https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1755644634/cmsk12ncus/c0hjknh9dsvia3ca0bic/CMSGenerativeAIGuidance2025-26Public.pdf ↗

Guidance v1, published August 19, 2025, still linked by current district AI page on October 3, 2026. Current page corroborates lesson delivery. Board policy O-AIU separately linked but full board text inaccessible; this record rests on published administrative guidance.

Review history

Reviewed against official sources

Source availability checked Oct 4, 2026: Source reopened. This is separate from verification of the policy claim below.

Source review date recorded in database: 2026-10-04

2026-10-03 — Carried forward from the source-linked baseline; topic, grade and evidence-type inventory reviewed. Individual source was not re-opened in this update. 2026-10-04 — Substantive source review: CMS August 2025 guidance pp.15–16 read. Reclassified ordinary assignment-permission framework as AI governance rather than a systemwide/grade-wide AI ban or moratorium, avoiding inflation of restriction counts.

Record ID: NC-CMS-2025-USE

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