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AI literacy in curriculum-framework review

California requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider AI literacy in specified framework revisions and instructional-material reviews.

California Legislature · AB 2876 / Chapter 927 (2024)

Enacted lawThe law was chaptered September 29, 2024. The duty depends on the specified revisions or adoptions.

Who and what it covers

The duty covers the Instructional Quality Commission’s mathematics, science, and history-social science frameworks and materials. It applies at the next specified revisions or adoptions after January 1, 2025.

Policy provisions

  1. AI literacy · Curriculum commission

    The commission must consider AI literacy when the specified frameworks are next revised after January 1, 2025. [1]

  2. AI literacy · Curriculum commission

    The commission must consider AI literacy in criteria for the specified next instructional-material adoptions. [1]

What to check next

Review the official document and ask your district which local policy and approved-tool list apply.

Sources & Notes

The duty requires consideration of content in the specified state review processes. It does not require every student to take an AI course. We verified the chaptered text in the official browser. Retained evidence is a labeled excerpt. It does not contain the original HTTP bytes.

  1. AB 2876, Chapter 927, September 29, 2024

    California Legislature · Education Code §33548(d)(1) · Source checked October 6, 2026

    The commission shall consider incorporating AI literacy content into the mathematics, science, and history-social science curriculum …
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Document history

Chaptered September 29, 2024; revision-triggered duty. This is the first source-checked version admitted to this file. We did not reconstruct earlier versions from amendment references or changed URLs.

Reviewed October 6, 2026 · Link to this verified version.

Cite this record

Formative Spaces, “AI literacy in curriculum-framework review | California,” AI in Schools, release 2026-10-06-875e416b4116, reviewed October 6, 2026. https://www.formativespaces.com/topics/classroom-ai/records/california-ab2876