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• Albany schools roll out AI classroom guidance, stressing basics and teacher role (cbs6albany.com) — Albany parents and students are seeing new district guidelines on classroom AI, as leaders try to balance tech skills with old-fashioned reading, writing, and math. The superintendent stresses AI will only support teachers, while some Albany parents push for fewer screens, more books, and stronger safeguards around how digital tools are used with kids.
• Former Albany budget director joins Schenectady County budget team (dailygazette.com) — Albany residents are facing scrutiny over city finances as a former Albany budget director takes a top fiscal job in Schenectady County. A state report criticized Albany's recent budgets as unrealistic and too reliant on one-time revenues, while the city confronts structural deficits and a proposed 15% property tax increase.
• MassDOT studies faster, more frequent Albany-Boston trains (wnyt.com) — If you ride the train from Albany toward Pittsfield and Boston, Massachusetts officials are studying ways to make that trip faster and more frequent. A new service development plan will set travel-time goals and needed upgrades, with Amtrak expected to operate added trains funded by both Massachusetts and New York.
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