Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers — Free Premium Claude, Bundled Claude Code + Cowork, for US K-12 Educators

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On July 14, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, giving verified US K-12 educators free access to premium Claude, a teaching-skills library, and a Learning Commons connection that maps lesson plans to academic standards in all 50 states; notably it includes Claude Code and Cowork so the assistant can carry multi-step work forward on its own. Teacher data is excluded from model training and student data is covered by a FERPA-aligned K-12 Data Processing Addendum, with a pilot evaluation running in the Detroit Public Schools Community District. It signals Anthropic pushing its agentic coding surface (Code/Cowork) into a non-developer vertical as the classroom AI race intensifies.