{"id":388023,"date":"2026-07-27T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388023\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:54:06","slug":"limiting-student-ai-use-july-27-2026-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/388023\/","title":{"rendered":"Limiting student AI use (July 27, 2026) \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-530383 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMCC-Featured-Image-Dark-Blue-2025-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"A mint green skyline against a dark blue background with the words Houston Matters with Craig Cohen in white\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday\u2019s show: Katy ISD is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/neighborhood\/katy\/article\/katy-isd-ai-policy-generative-ai-students-22357245.php\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">banning the use of AI<\/a> by elementary school students. The district&#8217;s board also set limits on AI use by middle and high school students in a decision that stands in sharp contrast to Houston ISD&#8217;s plans. And we recap a Congressional forum in Houston over ICE tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/hellohouston\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hello, Houston!<\/a> daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Also this hour: We dig deeper on the rights of renters in Greater Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a medical diagnosis kept Houstonian <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrios.com\/ginger-kerrick-davis\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ginger Kerrick<\/a> from ever being an astronaut. It didn&#8217;t, however, stop her from making history at NASA. Her story is among those told in a PBS documentary series called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/once-upon-a-time-in-space\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Once Upon a Time in Space<\/a>, which is airing this month on Houston Public Media, TV 8.<\/p>\n<p>And we recap Sunday&#8217;s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which features more than one former Astros players, and consider which current members of the team could someday join them in the hall.<\/p>\n<p>Watch<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday\u2019s show: Katy ISD is banning the use of AI by elementary school students. The district&#8217;s board&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4267,136725,3436,163,4977,136726,4045,3222,56,58,4978,57,7052,66,1911,223,136727,49381,4979,3951],"class_list":["post-388023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-ai","tag-apartment-renters","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-education","tag-full-show","tag-ginger-kerrick","tag-hisd","tag-housing","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-matters","tag-houston-news","tag-katy-isd","tag-local","tag-nasa","tag-news","tag-once-upon-a-time-in-space","tag-renters","tag-shows","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}