Along with annual legislative updates that focus on Special Ed. and pupil/student services issues, Attorney Sharon Montanye will be sharing the floor during the 23rd Paul Stevens Memorial Legal Seminar for a segment with PAPSA member and Special Ed. administrator Dr. Mike Ubbens as he walks through Avon Grove’s AI implementation process, demonstrating how the team centralized procedures and deployed a district-specific AI support agent, and sharing concrete examples of how these changes increased clarity, consistency, and confidence in daily operations. The session will also look at some of the legal challenges and benefits in adopting AI. 

U.S. House Hearing Shows Need for AI Professional Development

During a February 24, 2026 House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing legislators and witnesses agreed that teachers need professional development on artificial intelligence (AI) tools if they want to safely and effectively use the technology in their classrooms. Witnesses also emphasized the need for federal support to provide such training. However, while some Republican and Democratic lawmakers expressed interest in providing federal resources toward professional development in effectively using AI in lessons, Democrats said that is harder to do since the Office of Educational Technology was shuttered last year by the Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education.

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