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MEDIA ADVISORY

For immediate release: March 13, 2026
Contact: Liat Olenick,  Liat@climatefamiliesnyc.org, 917-930-2788
Kelly Clancy, kelly.a.clancy@gmail.com, ‪512- 589‑6302‬

Protest Demanding Two Year Moratorium on AI Use in NYC Schools

Parents, Educators, Kids to speak out and flyer outside NYC Schools Chancellor event 

What: Members of the AI Moratorium for NYC schools coalition with their children will be speaking out about the need to pause the use of AI in schools, while holding signs and handing out flyers to parents before the start of the  Manhattan forum entitled Our Schools. Our Future: Conversations with the Chancellor.

Where and when:   Saturday, March 14  at 10 AM, in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus at 122 Amsterdam Avenue  

Who: Parents, educators and children affiliated with the Coalition for an AI Moratorium (AIM NYC) include the Alliance for Quality Education, Class Size Matters, Climate Families NYC, Distraction Free Schools NY,  DSA Tech Action, MORE-UFT,  NYC Kids PAC, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, Parents for AI Caution in Educational Spaces, and Racially Just Public Schools.

Why:  NYC Department of Education is continuing to expand the use of Generative AI in schools, despite growing opposition and evidence that it represents substantial risk to student privacy, cognitive development and skills, critical thinking, creativity, mental health, and the environment.

More than 1300 NYC parents, teachers and concerned community members have now signed a petition to Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels, calling for a two year moratorium on the use of AI, until rigorous guardrails can be established to prevent these serious harms.

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