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Fresno Unified’s guidance tells staff to avoid entering student PII into public AI tools and to follow the district AUP.\n2. A Fresno County workshop on Aug. 20 featured a CART teacher describing structured, ethics-focused AI use in class.\n3. Fresno State is piloting Turnitin’s AI-writing detection this fall and warns detectors are not fully reliable.\n4. Families should expect classroom-by-classroom differences, since K-12 adoption is tied to teacher practice and existing privacy rules.\n\n\"Never enter student names, IDs, or sensitive information into public AI tools.\" The line sits high on Fresno Unified’s new AI guidance page, and it reads like a warning taped to a copier. The message matters because kids are already testing these tools and teachers are deciding, today, where AI fits in a real classroom.\n\n## What Fresno Unified says\n\nThe district frames AI as useful when used safely and responsibly, then ties every decision back to the Acceptable Use Policy and student privacy law. That’s the baseline for K-12 in Fresno this fall, not a districtwide ban or a free-for-all. The reminder about keeping student information out of public tools is explicit and plain. Parents looking for the rules can find them on the same page teachers do.\n\nPrivacy, cheating, and who sets the rules.\n\n## How teachers are trying it\n\nAt an Aug. 20 session hosted by the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, Mary Allen from the Center for Advanced Research and Technology walked through how she uses tools like ChatGPT with clear guardrails, emphasizing collaboration and ethics lessons before any prompt-writing. That model, teacher first and rules visible, mirrors what I hear in middle and high school prep periods across Fresno County. It is careful use, not just curiosity. A folded stack of agendas sat by the door.\n\n## What families should expect\n\nExpect variation by classroom and grade. A 6th grade ELA teacher might allow AI for brainstorming but ask for handwritten drafts, while a CART senior project could include AI critique logs as part of the rubric. On the college side, Fresno State is piloting Turnitin’s AI-writing detector this fall, and the university’s teaching office posts a blunt caveat that detection tools are imperfect and should not be treated as proof on their own. That guidance is useful to K-12 parents who assume a magic test exists. It doesn’t.\n\nFor now, the practical move is simple: ask your child’s teacher for the class policy and how it links to the district AUP. If you’re in Fresno Unified, the page is public and short. 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