{"id":180150,"date":"2026-01-20T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/lawmakers-address-ai-use-in-school-discipline-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:20:12","slug":"lawmakers-address-ai-use-in-school-discipline-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/20\/lawmakers-address-ai-use-in-school-discipline-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Address AI Use in School Discipline Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/ai-bias-schools-concerns\/\">Lawmakers Address AI Use in School Discipline Cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/ai-bias-schools-concerns\/\">https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/ai-bias-schools-concerns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-20 09:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"seattlemedium.com\">seattlemedium.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concerns about the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools were addressed during a public hearing on Senate Bill 5956 in Olympia.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored by Sen. T\u2019wina Nobles (D), the bill aims to bar schools from using automated decision systems as the main or sole factor in student disciplinary cases.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue AI tools can reinforce bias and harm, particularly affecting students from marginalized communities.<\/li>\n<li>The bill would prevent AI from using predictive risk scores to classify students based on their likelihood of misconduct, gang affiliation, or criminal behavior.<\/li>\n<li>It also would mandate updates in the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction&#8217;s guidance and requires the Washington State School Directors\u2019 Association to draft a model policy for school districts and state-tribal education settings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers Address AI Use in School Discipline Cases https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/ai-bias-schools-concerns\/ Publish Date: 2026-01-20 09:50:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/seattlemedium.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Twina-nobles-new-bfcf-748x486-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-180150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180152,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180150\/revisions\/180152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}