The federal Office of Educational Technology during today's National Digital Equity Summit launched its Advancing Digital Equity for All resource, which provides a platform for recommendations to establish equity plans.
The higher ed system will use nearly $4 million to boost workforce development to prepare workers for jobs relating to clean energy technology, such as offshore wind and electric car development.
The state has partnered with the financial technology company ClassWallet to help manage the distribution of federal relief funds given to private and other nonpublic schools, an announcement said.
The city of Reno has announced the appointment of Craig Franden, who has more than 20 years of public IT experience, to the Department of Information Technology director position. Franden replaces Kannaiah Vadlakunta in the role.
The California Department of Education announced a partnership with early literacy and biliteracy company Footsteps2Brilliance to help further its goal of achieving literacy for all California students by third grade.
The partnership will open the door for about 3,000 students from over 50 schools in the city to apprenticeship opportunities for some of the city’s leading employers in the finance, technology and business ops fields.
The recently announced funds will be used to expand cybersecurity and IT education programs across the state to help grow the state's high-tech workforce. The money is part of a larger $30 million workforce training push.
The four-year-old software-as-a-service provider sells technology that can handle not only titles and auto registrations but liens and insurance issues. DMVs around the country are striving to acquire better technology.