{"id":190386,"date":"2026-02-25T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:55:09","slug":"trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Talks Up AI in State of the Union, But Not Much Else About Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education\/2026\/02\">Trump Talks Up AI in State of the Union, But Not Much Else About Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education\/2026\/02\">https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/policy-politics\/trump-talks-up-ai-in-state-of-the-union-but-not-much-else-about-education\/2026\/02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-25 00:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.edweek.org\">www.edweek.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President Trump highlighted a K-12 artificial intelligence (AI) competition initiated by First Lady Melania Trump in his major speech, drawing praise from some computer science teachers.<\/li>\n<li>Trump omitted discussions on his administration&#8217;s significant changes to the U.S. Department of Education, including downsizing the department and redirecting certain K-12 programs.<\/li>\n<li>The president also did not address the controversial policy shift that permits Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to make arrests and conduct raids in schools, despite reported adverse effects on school attendance.<\/li>\n<li>Trump made a passing reference to a decision that requires school officials to inform parents about their child&#8217;s gender identity.<\/li>\n<li>The AI competition occurred alongside the Trump administration&#8217;s elimination of grants and the office dedicated to advancing STEM education, which some experts argue undermines the very AI goals the competition promotes.<\/li>\n<li>The administration&#8217;s emphasis on AI in education is juxtaposed with growing concerns among lawmakers about the effects of digital technology on children\u2019s mental health, evidenced by the introduction of bipartisan Senate bills aimed at restricting AI chatbot interactions for minors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Talks Up AI in State of the Union, But Not Much Else About Education&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/epe.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/a6731f6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5136x3421+0+0\/resize\/946x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepe-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F01%2F88%2F59e137364b3d9da923bafae49023%2Fstate-of-the-union-26056077549402.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-190386","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\/190386"}],"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=190386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190388,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190386\/revisions\/190388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}