A $1.75 million grant programme will pay Massachusetts schools to teach online safety, data privacy and how to recognise false information, including AI-generated content. Classes must run during the 2026-27 school year.

At ResearchEd Ireland, teachers heard that AI-written work cannot be reliably spotted — which puts a question mark over homework and the new Leaving Cert assessment components. The Irish Times reports the warning has been available for some time.

A growing number of US states and districts are restricting generative AI in classrooms. One New York bill would bar most of it before ninth grade — with exceptions for diagnostic and special-education use. Access arrives again as the exception, not the design.

Around 100,000 teachers and lecturers joined Wednesday's public sector strike. ASTI, INTO and TUI now want Micheal Martin to intervene personally to head off a second day of action.

Google Philippines has launched the Google AI Educator Series, free self-paced AI modules for teachers delivered with DepEd, CHED and TESDA, within a wider push to train a million state educators.

A proposed US federal rule would remove screening and individualised support for children waiting on a special education evaluation, and drop disability-related staff training. The Autism Society has filed comments warning of delayed identification.

Baroness Jane Campbell delivered a Lords speech using an AI recreation of the voice she had before 2012. The procedure committee approved it as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act. A quiet precedent, and a good one.

More than 150 schools across Dublin and Kildare received a bomb threat email on Wednesday, the same day most schools were shut by public sector industrial action. Gardai are assessing the emails; schools were told to operate as normal.

The Higher Education Authority has launched Follaine le Cheile, a revised student mental health framework that asks colleges to embed wellbeing in culture, policy and teaching, including designing accessible curricula.

England's national autism strategy expired in July 2026 with no successor published, and the Government says only that it is considering its approach. Ireland, which has never legislated for a strategy at all, should read that carefully.