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The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights guidance frames AI through existing civil-rights law — schools must ensure AI tools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin (Title VI), sex (Title IX), or disability (§504/ADA),…

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The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights guidance frames AI through existing civil-rights law — schools must ensure AI tools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin (Title VI), sex (Title IX), or disability (§504/ADA), which means checking for discriminatory impact and maintaining oversight. It is an application of nondiscrimination duties, not a new technical standard. Planisphere measures model behaviour across protected cohorts to support that check; it does not render the civil-rights determination or give legal advice.

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OCR AI Guidance protects students — their records, their civil rights, their access. When an AI sits in an eligibility, …

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How do we show OCR we measured our school AI for discrimination? How do we show an early-warning / dropout-prediction model's results across cohorts? How does Planisphere measure cohort fairness without touching student PII?

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Start with the free sandbox. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.

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When OCR AI Guidance asks for proof, hand over records — not assurances.

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Planisphere records each duty event — an output marked, a disclosure shown, a review made — and seals it into a receipt that verifies offline against our published keys. You send hashes, never content. A record is evidence a third party can check; it is not a certification and not a legal determination.

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