FERPA
We act as a school official under your district's direction. Student work and records stay under your control; we access them only to provide the service you've contracted for.
No separate parental consent required for FERPA-covered use.
For superintendents and curriculum directors
District-ready from day one.
Veradic is built to clear procurement before it clears the classroom. Compliance, paperwork, and a pilot path — all documented here.
Compliance & data isolation
Every law your district lawyer asks about — answered.
We’ve done the paperwork before. Here’s what we do and what it means for you, in plain English.
COPPA
We rely on the school-consent exception that all classroom-deployed ed-tech uses for students under 13 — your district consents on parents' behalf for educational use.
Standard for K-12 classroom deployments.
NDPA standard template
We sign the National Data Privacy Agreement template most US districts already use. Send us your filled version and we'll countersign.
No bespoke negotiation needed for most districts.
State-specific addenda
We work through state-specific data-privacy laws on request: NY Education Law §2-d, CA SOPIPA, IL SOPPA, and others.
Send us the addendum your state requires; we'll redline it.
Never trained on
Student work, conversations with the AI tutor, integrity-check transcripts, and grades are never used to train AI models — ours or anyone else's. Period.
Your students' data does not leave your control.
School-controlled record
All student-generated content is treated as an education record under your district's policies. You can export, audit, or delete it at any time.
Standard FERPA recordkeeping and retention applies.
Data hosting & model safety
Where the data lives. How the model behaves.
The two questions district counsel asks first, in plain English.
Data hosting & retention
- Student and school data is stored in encrypted databases hosted in United States data centers. Backups are encrypted at rest.
- Schools can request a full data export or deletion at any time. We don’t hold student records hostage.
- On account closure, identifiable data is deleted within 30 days. We retain only the anonymized aggregates we need to keep the service running.
- We don’t build advertising profiles. We don’t sell data. Identifiable student data isn’t shared with third parties beyond the infrastructure providers needed to operate the service.
Model safety & content moderation
- Veradic runs on top of Anthropic’s Claude with a classroom-safety system prompt layered on. The model is instructed to never hand students the final answer directly, refuse off-topic conversations, and decline requests that would help a student cheat.
- In school mode, students cannot upload arbitrary photos or chat freely with the AI. They can only work on problems from their teacher’s approved bank.
- This closes the common jailbreak vectors you see with consumer chatbots — there’s no general-purpose chat surface for students to misuse.
Deployment
Live with students in a week. Or a day.
No SSO project. No PII spreadsheet. No IT ticket.
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We create your school account
We handle the initial setup. You give us your school name and the teachers who'll be invited.
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Teachers receive invites
Each teacher gets a single email and a 5-minute setup. They organize their courses and sections.
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Students join with a 6-character code
No student emails required. No district SSO integration required. Teachers share a code, students enter it.
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First homework set goes live
Most teachers run their first integrity-checked assignment within a week — same day if motivated.
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You can pilot a single classroom first
Run with one teacher, one class. See the data, sign the paperwork, then expand on your timeline.
Editorial note · Pilot data
Real pilot data coming Fall 2026.
We’re running pilots with select classrooms now. We’ll publish hours-saved, integrity-flag rate, and student-outcome data here as it lands — with sources, sample sizes, and the districts who let us name them.
We’d rather show you nothing than show you fabricated numbers.
Paperwork
Send us what your district uses. We’ve seen it.
We don’t make districts use our paperwork. We work through yours.
- Standard NDPA template, signed and countersigned
- FERPA Data Processing Agreement on request
- COPPA school-consent letters (template provided)
- State-specific addenda (NY 2-d, CA SOPIPA, IL SOPPA, etc.)
- District-custom riders, redlined and returned within 5 business days
- Annual data-handling audit summary on request
Email us your district’s paperwork
We’ll read it and reply within 5 business days. Most districts get a fully countersigned package in under two weeks.
support@veradicai.comDistrict questions
What district leaders ask.
Ready to start
Bring Veradic to your district.
Send us your paperwork. We'll handle the rest.