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Good morning from MJ at Chalkbeat Indiana! Today’s top story is from Newark, where Randi Weingarten, the head of the country’s second-largest teachers union, hoped an elementary visit would ease her fears about AI. Instead, it did the opposite.

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Randi Weingarten said Newark Public Schools visit confirmed her fears about AI in the classroom

Newark Public Schools touted Weingarten’s visit to see an AI tutoring chatbot in action, but a day later, she called for a ban on student-facing AI in elementary schools.

Chicago cut funding for assistant principals in small schools. Most chose to keep them anyway.

Three years ago, Chicago Public Schools committed to fund an assistant principal at each school, no matter its enrollment size. This spring during a tough budget season, the district announced it would eliminate funding for these positions on campuses with fewer than 250 students.

What’s Mamdani’s agenda for K-12 education in NYC? 6 months in, it’s hard to say.

For some NYC education watchers, the dearth of attention to K-12 schools raises questions about how Mamdani will manage a core function of the city government.