AI Funding is Coming to Schools

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The U.S. Department of Education has signaled that grant applications emphasizing AI will receive preferential consideration, setting off a wave of school district planning. Malespina argues that this influx of funding risks driving rushed, poorly designed AI adoption if the right voices aren't in the room from the start—and makes the case that library and literacy professionals need to be central to these decisions, not consulted as an afterthought.