April 8, 2025

The annual conference of Network for Public Education, on whose board I sit, was held last weekend in Columbus, Ohio.  It was terrific as usual, with wonderful speeches and incisive and illuminating workshops and panel discussions on how to strengthen our public schools and protect them from the depredations of budget cuts, privatization, and censorship.  We also heard from Gov. Tim Walz, who gave an impassioned speech against Trump’s attempt to dismantle our education system.  More about this here.

We also organized a workshop on the risks of using AI in the classroom, including the risks to student privacy, featuring our co-chair Cassie Creswell and  Peter Greene, education guru and blogger.

Our presentation is here and embedded below.  If your group would like a similar presentation, please email us at [email protected]

thanks,

Leonie Haimson, co-chair, Parent Coalition for Student Privacy