Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
CurrentCMS Generative AI Guidance — annual student lessons
All K–12 students must complete annual digital-citizenship lessons covering online safety, privacy, digital footprints and responsible behavior, with more advanced topics in secondary grades.
- 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
- Student instruction required
- Instrument
- District administrative guidance
Dates & implementation
Annual grade-level Digital Citizenship & AI Literacy lessons under August 2025 guidance.
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.12 and17.
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 district guidance pp.12 and17 read; annual digital-citizenship instruction confirmed.
Record ID: NC-CMS-2025-DCIT
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