OpenAI first launched its free ChatGPT for Teachers program in 2025. Today the company announced a vast expansion of the program, covering 55 additional school systems across 20 states.

OpenAI says the new expansion reaches more than 100,000 additional educators and staff.

“With this new cohort, OpenAI is now working with more than 100 K–12 organizations across 30 states to provide free access and training to over 300,000 educators and staff,” the company says.

OpenAI says ChatGPT for Teachers will remain free “for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2028.”

Separately, the firm details a new data privacy agreement related to ChatGPT for Teachers.

Alongside this, we’re also announcing a data privacy agreement spanning 16 states, a first for the industry, that provides a common framework for districts to evaluate ChatGPT for Teachers against their student data privacy requirements, helping make responsible AI adoption simpler and more consistent across school systems.

Our work continues to be guided by the belief that AI should support learning, not shortcut it, and educators should remain in control of how AI shapes classroom experiences. In this spirit, ChatGPT for Teachers continues to be available to administrators, faculty, and educators only. 

You can learn much more about OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teachers program here. Back in July, Anthropic started its own program for free access to Claude for educators as well.

OpenAI has also published a new report on how AI is being used for continuous education.

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