States ask “is it safe?” Districts mostly don’t.
Two 2025–26 reports, read side by side, describe the same edtech market from opposite ends. The gap between them is where most student data actually lives.
Insights
The guidance is changing faster than most schools can track, and most of what gets written about it is either vendor marketing or panic. We read the primary sources: state guidance, district policy, vendor terms, the actual research. Then we write down what we find.
Two 2025–26 reports, read side by side, describe the same edtech market from opposite ends. The gap between them is where most student data actually lives.