After implementing an initiative to reduce screen time last August, a North Carolina school district is seeing results that resemble pre-COVID learning environments, with improved focus, behavior, reading and writing.

For decades, the cost of course materials has increased far beyond the rate of inflation, and Salem State University students say open-resource course materials online would better serve them and their professors, both.

The San Luis Obispo County elections office will implement the new system in the June 2 statewide primary. It intakes hundreds of ballots at once, then can “talk” to a registration system to verify signatures.

The funding, totaling $48.5 million, derives from the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. It is expected to enable connections to 22,000 homes and businesses in the state.

Officials at AMP, which operates a regional processing and sorting facility in Portsmouth, Va., intend for the technology to help humans organize trash at multiple intervals in the cycle.

The project won approval on a 5-1 vote despite significant public opposition. Council members argued the center would be a chance to boost tax revenue without burdening area schools.

The University of Wisconsin system is developing governance policies for students, faculty and staff for responsible use of AI, and UW-Madison’s newest college centered around AI opens this fall.

Collaboration between the College Board and the Carnegie Foundation will launch a multi-state coalition and support states as they redesign teacher pathways, update certification systems and expand access to CTE courses.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill has appointed Kevin Dehmer, the now-former state education commissioner, as the state’s new chief technology officer. Longtime CTO Chris Rein’s last day was Friday.

Massachusetts is above the national average for percentage of high school students who have taken a computer science course, but there’s no state requirement to teach the subject in K-12 schools.