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April Chandler
Chair of the Loudoun County (Virginia) School Board, representing the Algonkian District since January 2024 and elected board chair in January 2026.
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Oct 1, 2026
Centering Student Voices, the Path for A.I. and Why Belonging Matters with School Board Chair April Chandler and Vice-Chair Anne Donohue
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13:54April ChandlerGUEST
One of the things that I value in, in terms of governance and apply to as, as a standard to my governance lens is consistency.
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14:04April ChandlerGUEST
And so what I worry about is that without the federal government at the helm setting a national standard, that the actual delivery of services, the standard, all of the things that have in the past, even civil rights enforcement, whether or not the people at the local level are delivering services with fidelity, without that consistency and leadership at the federal level, I am worried about how districts acro- across the nation will be impacted by these changes.
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14:38April ChandlerGUEST
To some extent, often from our lens, it's good and it, I, it doesn't feel as harmful because maybe we have a good relationship with the commonwealth government, right? Like, we have faith in our own abilities and the abilities of the state government to take these actions and to deliver these services.
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15:01April ChandlerGUEST
But in thinking about what it could be like and, and how the interpretation could be so different from state to state and county to county and town to town, it really does undermine the idea of public education to me.
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15:18April ChandlerGUEST
Don't know that I would've come up with something that might be beneficial, but I do appreciate that Anne did, and I don't disagree.
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Sujit KoppulaHOST
For our listeners who haven't heard about this, could you just share your thoughts, share some of those reservations and how you'd like school leadership to approach AI implementation moving forward?