York School District SC AI Responsible Use policy (2026)

York School District, S.C. (York County) — 'ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESPONSIBLE USE' policy, approved UNANIMOUSLY by the district's Board of Trustees in August 2026, ahead of the 2026-27 school year. FIRST-IN-COUNTY: the source identifies York as the FIRST of York County's FOUR school districts to enact an official AI policy, in a county where the districts were collectively making decisions about screen time, AI and technology use. WHY THE DIFFUSION POINT MATTERS: South Carolina had NO STATE MANDATE requiring district AI policies. Contrast Ohio statewide school AI policy mandate (2026), under which Ohio became the FIRST STATE to require every public school district to adopt one \u2014 with the option of simply adopting the Ohio Department of Education's model policy \u2014 and Maryland AI Ready Schools Act, SB 720 (2026), which obliges every Maryland local education agency to adopt a policy within 120 DAYS of MSDE guidance and directs the state to publish an evaluative rubric for AI tools. A DISTRICT ACTING VOLUNTARILY IN A NO-MANDATE STATE FACES A DIFFERENT PROBLEM from one meeting a deadline: it must source or draft the policy itself with no state model, no evaluative rubric and no shared baseline, which is precisely the capacity gap the Ohio and Maryland designs address. That three of York County's four districts had not yet acted illustrates the uneven coverage a voluntary regime produces. ADDITIONAL CONTEXT from the same report: the Clover district went one-to-one with iPads and MacBooks for K-12 students in 2011-12, per Superintendent Sheila Quinn \u2014 a reminder that these districts have been making device and platform decisions for well over a decade and that AI policy lands on top of existing technology commitments. THE POLICY'S SUBSTANTIVE TERMS ARE NOT STATED in the located source and are the material gap on this entry.