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Hello! I’m Lori Higgins for Chalkbeat Detroit, here with your morning roundup of education news.

Today I’m sharing a story from Lizzie Walsh, a reporter in our New York bureau. She wrote last week about a lengthy meeting in which more than 100 community members in New York spoke out last week against the use of artificial intelligence in schools. Among their arguments? That AI tools are being introduced without clear rules and technology, and that schools are using some technologies that conflict with a preliminary AI policy. Read more here.

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