Smart assistance. Human judgment.
More than half of US special-education teachers already use AI somewhere in writing IEPs — up from under 40% a year earlier, per the Center for Democracy & Technology. The question isn't whether AI touches this paperwork. It's whether the product using it will show you exactly what it did, and whether a person still makes the call.
The rule behind every AI surface
Why this matters more than it sounds like it should
Independent research has found bias in AI-generated IEP content from named tools in this category, and only a small fraction of tracked special-education AI products carry an independent security assessment at all. A review gate and a visible audit trail aren't a compliance checkbox — they're the difference between a tool a teacher can trust and one they have to second-guess line by line.