OpenAI adds 20 states and about 140,000 educators to its free offer until June 2028, maintaining an explicit line: no account is open to students.
OpenAI announced the expansion of ChatGPT for Teachers to an additional 55 U.S. school systems, spread across 20 states and representing approximately 140,000 more educators and staff. The entire program now has 103 partner organizations, educating more than two million students.
Access remains free for primary and secondary school teachers whose status is verified, until June 2028. The limit is set unambiguously by Leah Belsky, OpenAI's vice president of education: no student accounts are opened. On the operating side, schools have an administered workspace with role-based access rights, possible integrations with Google or Microsoft environments, and continuously updated templates. A data privacy agreement has been concluded in 16 states via the Student Data Privacy Consortium.
The training component accompanies the extension: more than 1,600 participants in the "AI Skills Jams" in the summer of 2026, 93% of whom say they came away with immediately applicable skills. The discourse remains that AI should never replace the human work of teaching, with pedagogical decisions remaining the responsibility of teachers.
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