Anthropic Just Gave K-12 Teachers a Free Year of Claude (Cowork + Code Included)

Dev Stack — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:27:24 +0000

Anthropic quietly changed the K-12 AI landscape this week.

On July 14, 2026, they launched Claude for Teachers — a full year of premium Claude access, completely free, for verified US K-12 educators. And this isn't a stripped-down student edition.

What's actually in it

Claude Cowork and Claude Code — the same agentic tools enterprise customers pay for
Learning Commons connector — lesson planning grounded in a live database of academic standards across all 50 states, not just the model's general training knowledge
A teaching skills library co-developed with Learning Commons, piloted at Prospect Schools in Brooklyn
FERPA-aligned data terms developed with the American Federation of Teachers — Anthropic says verified teacher account data isn't used for training

How to get it

Head to claude.com/solutions/teachers
Verify your employment with a school email
Access is granted immediately, no payment info needed
Sign up before June 30, 2027 to lock in the free year

Why this matters beyond teachers

This puts Claude in direct competition with ChatGPT for Teachers (launched last November) and Microsoft/Google's educator programs. Anthropic's angle is deeper curriculum alignment plus full agentic tooling — a combination competing programs reportedly don't match yet.

I wrote up the full breakdown (with more detail on the FERPA terms and how it stacks up against ChatGPT for Teachers) here: [link to your StackAdvisor post]

Anyone here a teacher, or know one who'd actually use the Cowork/Code side of this rather than just chat?

Fixed: Laravel Blade @else Inside @foreach Syntax Error (Laravel 12 + PHP 8.5)

Dev Stack — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:34:49 +0000

Ran into this while working on a Laravel 12 + PHP 8.5 project — sharing in case it saves someone the debugging time.

The problem

Wrote an @else inside an @foreach loop in Blade, expecting it to show a fallback when the collection is empty. Instead, got:

ParseError
syntax error, unexpected token "else", expecting end of file

Why it happens

Blade's @foreach compiles straight into a native PHP foreach loop — and PHP's foreach has no else branch, period. Blade doesn't add one; it just passes through what you wrote as literal PHP, so the compiled output is invalid PHP.

The fix

Laravel already has a directive built for exactly this: @forelse.

@forelse ($items as $item)
    <p>{{ $item->name }}</p>
@empty
    <p>No items found.</p>
@endforelse

@foreach → @forelse, @else → @empty, @endforeach → @endforelse. That's the whole fix.

I wrote up the full breakdown (with the compiled PHP output showing exactly why it breaks) here: https://devstackdaily.blogspot.com/2026/07/fixed-laravel-blade-else-inside-foreach.html

Curious if others have hit this — did @forelse click for you right away or did it take a minute to find?

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