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North East Independent School District, which is located in San Antonio, may soon be fighting a legal battle with the Texas Education Agency over its controversial cellphone policy.
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One of the key lessons from Florida Virtual School’s collaboration with the AI-enabled data platform Doowii was the importance of spending time with users to understand their needs and limits.
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Students are invited to learn about Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS), used by spacecraft as a kind of nuclear battery, and design an RPS-powered space mission for a chance to attend a virtual event with NASA experts.
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When schools share photos with identifiable student faces on their official Facebook pages, they might land on the radar of facial recognition tools used by law enforcement, foreign governments or worse.
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A South Carolina school district purchased charging systems and 16 fully electric school buses, which will include mobile two-way radios, camera systems, Wi-Fi capability and GPS/telematics systems.
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A data-extortion group that stole information from Davenport School District in Iowa in September claims to have posted some of it, but a threat analyst says the group may be baiting the district or bluffing.
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Anticipating stricter emissions standards in the years to come, Bigfork, Clinton and Fairfield school districts will use funding from the EPA's Clean School Bus Program to start replacing diesel buses.
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New York City's $4 billion "Leading the Charge" plan proposes guidelines for new school buildings, the conversion of fossil fuel combustion boilers to ultra-low biofuel, and the installation of LED lights in 800 schools.
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Willis Independent School District in Texas has put $245,000 toward a three-year contract with the online tutoring company Paper, which makes tutoring and essay review available to students 24/7.
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After receiving nearly $778 million from the American Rescue Plan last year, Nevada's largest school district is investing in electric buses and fitting classrooms with technology to support instruction.
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As part of a long-term strategy to mitigate COVID-19, several school districts in Yakima County, Wash., have begun or completed major HVAC upgrades funded by federal ESSER funds, which are available through fall 2024.
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education worked with The Learning Accelerator to create a new guide to help district administrators make smarter choices about ed-tech purchases.
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School officials say technology and practices now in place for virtual instruction will help them deal with outbreaks when they occur, and minimize the need for closing schools and adding days to the end of the year.
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A recent report from the Government Accountability Office criticizes the U.S. Department of Education for not sufficiently coordinating communication between school districts and the feds on cybersecurity.
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A social media post by "Karakurt" threatens to release personal student information. The Illinois district has warned employees that their information may have been compromised, although it said nothing about students.
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The DCPS Digital Equity Act of 2022 requires the school district to create a student technology plan to close the digital divide locally and modernize school IT protocols, with the help of feedback from parents and educators.
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At a webinar on Tuesday featured in the Aurora Institute Symposium, the Colorado Board of Education's Office of Blended Learning explained a two-year plan to gather research on hybrid learning to inform state policy.
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With emerging, data-driven approaches to instruction and mounting evidence of learning loss during the pandemic, K-12 schools should question the wisdom of putting all students through the same classes at the same pace.
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Cybersecurity services company Steel Root is relaunching its $10,000 scholarship to benefit a high school junior in Massachusetts looking to pursue higher education in the field of cybersecurity.
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Cleveland Metropolitan School District Principal Jim Greene believes Gaggle has saved student lives, monitoring indications of problems from inappropriate social media use to bullying, self-harm, violence or drugs.
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