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      <title>From Guidance to Mandate: The AI Governance Moment Every District Leader Needs to Understand</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Maryland's AI Ready Schools Act, Stanford's evidence gap, and the OECD's performance-learning paradox converge on a single governance challenge district leaders cannot defer. AI in Public Education Brief, Edition 11.]]></description>
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      <title>July 1, 2026: What Ohio's AI Mandate Actually Requires from District Leaders</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Principals are being asked to lead something they may not fully understand, implement what teachers may resist, and govern what districts haven't defined. A practical governance framework for building leaders.]]></description>
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      <title>From AI Pilot to AI System: What It Takes to Move Your District Forward</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[68% of teachers navigated AI adoption in 2024-25 with no training, no district guidance, and no professional framework. That's not a teacher problem. It's a governance design problem — and it's addressable.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2025, AI adoption in K-12 accelerated while governance, leadership readiness, and system design lagged behind. Only 19% of schools had a formal AI policy. What the research found and what district leaders must do.]]></description>
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