NYC Mayor; announced and championed the ban, framing it as protecting critical thinking and human connection over tech-industry inevitability claims
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Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels
NYC Schools Chancellor; co-announced the policy and oversees implementation, including disabling AI functions across affected ed-tech products
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United Federation of Teachers (Michael Mulgrew)
Teachers union president; praised the screen-time limits but criticized the ambiguity, arguing schools are left to determine compliance after the fact and that vendors should be held to stronger safeguards
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Richard Buery (Robin Hood Foundation CEO, former NYC deputy mayor)
Critic of the blanket ban's lack of exceptions, arguing it will disrupt existing classroom uses of AI that were already working
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Fairplay (David Monahan)
Child-advocacy group that pushed for a two-year moratorium; calls the one-year policy a step in the right direction but insufficient
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Affected ed-tech vendors (Amira, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Quill, Edia, Brisk Teaching, Playlab, Intel AI-Ready Schools)
Products directly hit by the policy - some must strip AI features (Amira, HMH's Into Reading), while five others remain approved for limited high-school pilots