{"id":223945,"date":"2026-06-01T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/new-york-teachers-union-backs-screen-and-ai-limits-for-young-students\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:50:12","slug":"new-york-teachers-union-backs-screen-and-ai-limits-for-young-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/new-york-teachers-union-backs-screen-and-ai-limits-for-young-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New York teachers union backs screen and AI limits for young students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/06\/01\/nysut-teachers-union-wants-ban-on-ai-screens-for-young-students\/\">New York teachers union backs screen and AI limits for young students<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/06\/01\/nysut-teachers-union-wants-ban-on-ai-screens-for-young-students\/\">https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/06\/01\/nysut-teachers-union-wants-ban-on-ai-screens-for-young-students\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 17:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.chalkbeat.org\">www.chalkbeat.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) has passed a resolution calling for a ban on individual students&#8217; screen use in pre-K through second grade and prohibiting student-facing AI for these young learners.<\/li>\n<li>The resolution also calls for banning AI chatbots for students under 16 and for using AI in any grade to be &#8220;educator-led&#8221; and designed to promote critical thinking, digital literacy, and civic readiness.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Kathy Hochul has expressed concerns about screen time in schools and would take a year-long approach to studying this issue before giving her opinion.<\/li>\n<li>Several districts and states, such as Los Angeles, Iowa, and Tennessee, are limiting screens or considering limits in schools.<\/li>\n<li>The NYSUT\u2019s resolution further demands that paper and pencil options be maintained as New York transitions to digital standardized exams for students in grades 3-8, as educators have raised concerns about the increasing reliance on devices for test preparation.<\/li>\n<li>The teachers unions are navigating the backlash against education technology by trying to scale back screen time while also working to help educators understand and use AI for their own work.<\/li>\n<li>Educator and parent concerns focus on the use of online assessments in kindergarten and the potential replacement of human instruction, creativity, and judgment with AI. <\/li>\n<li>The growing movement highlights a nationwide pushback against the increasing use of technology and screens in early education, particularly highlighting the need to maintain student-teacher engagement and critical thinking skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York teachers union backs screen and AI limits for young students https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/06\/01\/nysut-teachers-union-wants-ban-on-ai-screens-for-young-students\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/resizer\/v2\/2ZYJ262EBBAEZPCGH6ZUR25FLQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=39dd86f66c3acd6f6eaf384e8dfcbd97804a25d54722d3cc43a6b40c0ba692ad&width=1200&height=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223945"}],"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=223945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223947,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223945\/revisions\/223947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}