About us
This is a proposed framework offered for research, stakeholder consultation, and pilot design — not a claim that any such system currently exists or has been adopted by any school, district, or government body.
A Verified Identity Layer for American Education
School Contact is the K–12 proposal within the Contact Initiative — a three-part national framework from the Department of Technology Initiative for persistent, verified identity and phishing-resistant communication across schools, colleges, and universities.
OUR MAP
Every day, parents receive messages claiming to be from their child’s school, and school staff receive messages claiming to be from parents, vendors, or other districts. Today, almost none of that can be verified in real time. School Contact proposes an infrastructure layer that fixes this: persistent identity anchors, institution-attested roles, retire-never-recycle guardian aliases, and a Machine-Intelligence Authorization Layer that governs what AI assistants are allowed to do on a person’s behalf.
This site hosts the full white paper, a companion set of real-world scenarios, and ongoing commentary as the proposal moves through stakeholder review and pilot design.
