AFT President Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith announced the National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for schools on September 9, 2026, a signed agreement that lets US school districts add contractually enforceable AI privacy and safety protections to their Microsoft customer agreements. The announcement, made in New York, framed the standard as a response to what it called the absence of meaningful federal…