{"id":246315,"date":"2026-05-15T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/stratford-students-selected-to-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T01:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:20:09","slug":"stratford-students-selected-to-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/stratford-students-selected-to-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stratford Students Selected To Help Shape National K-12 AI Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/stratford\/stratford-students-selected-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy\">Stratford Students Selected To Help Shape National K-12 AI Policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/stratford\/stratford-students-selected-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy\">https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/stratford\/stratford-students-selected-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 00:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"patch.com\">patch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRATFORD, CT \u2014 Two Stratford Public Schools students have been selected to help shape the national conversation of how artificial intelligence should be used in education at a summit this summer in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Stratford students Anthony Darbilli and Bena Mejia Romero have been selected to represent Connecticut at the 2026 Day of AI &#038; AASA Leadership Fellowship and America\u2019s Youth AI Festival in Boston this July. They will be joined by Stratford Superintendent of Schools Heather M. Borges.<\/p>\n<p>At the festival, students from across the country will help shape a model national AI policy for K-12 schools.<\/p>\n<p>The national initiative \u2014 led in partnership with MIT RAISE, Day of AI, and AASA \u2014 was recently highlighted in Education Week and will bring together student leaders and superintendents from across the nation to explore ethical AI integration, student voice, and the future of education, according to Borges.<\/p>\n<p>Borges said Stratford Public Schools has \u201cintentionally developed responsible AI practices and student-centered innovation work, and we are incredibly proud to see our students helping lead this conversation on a national stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s Youth AI Festival will take place from July 17\u201419 in Boston and Cambridge.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, student delegates will convene as national \u201cStudent AI Senators\u201d at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute, where they will debate and help create a new national student-centered AI policy for K-12 public schools, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation leaders will engage with leading researchers and practitioners to explore how AI is being used in innovative school systems across the country,\u201d the news release states. \u201cFollowing the Festival, AASA will share the new National AI Policy with 10,000 school leaders across the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial intelligence is not just a technological shift\u2014it is a transformational moment for education,\u201d Borges said. \u201cThis experience allows our students to lead, not follow, in shaping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/stratford\/stratford-students-selected-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stratford Students Selected To Help Shape National K-12 AI Policy https:\/\/patch.com\/connecticut\/stratford\/stratford-students-selected-help-shape-national-k-12-ai-policy Publish Date: 2026-05-15 00:43:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/patch.com\/img\/cdn20\/shutterstock\/22791208\/20260515\/124351\/styles\/patch_image\/public\/shutterstock-1698736867___15004249839.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246319,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246315\/revisions\/246319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}