Lawmakers are moving to integrate AI literacy and ethics training into computer science classes and expand graduation requirements.

Research also offers solutions for addressing under-enrolled schools aside from closing them altogether.

Among the biggest beneficiaries may be middle-income families, whose earnings are well above the poverty line but had strained to cover private school tuition without an infusion of public funds.

Mental health, school choice and academics were among the many educational issues governors promised to improve in their 2025 State of the State addresses.