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Starting April 13, a town in Connecticut will use cameras on school buses to automatically issue fines to drivers for illegally passing stopped school buses. A warning period resulted in nearly 300 warnings to drivers. -
Out-of-state vendors can sign up for Texas Education Freedom Accounts if they have a license to do business in the state. Experts say the law leaves a gray area for out-of-state schools that join as online vendors.
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The state Department of Education asked for $17.6 million to educate students about the impact smartphones, screens and social media, and it's launching a survey to learn how districts handle technology in the classroom.
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A "sophisticated phishing attack" targeting New Haven Public Schools came after accounts belonging to at least four students were compromised. More than 10,000 emails were then sent to students districtwide.
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For some school districts searching for the right LLM, the most secure and cost-effective route may be to host their own on premises, then contract with a third party for enterprise services.
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State Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin said one of his goals before the end of the legislative session is to pass a bell-to-bell phone ban in K-12 schools. Many New Jersey schools already restrict phone use, but policies vary.
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The tech company aims to help educators utilize its new ChatGPT for Teachers amid the rising deployment of technologies to classrooms. The tool will be available free to verified teachers through June 2027.
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A $6 million partnership with Google will enable Georgia State University to provide daily AI and machine learning instruction to selected public school students on the university’s campus.
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A report from the Education Commission of the States finds that amid the growth of AI, shifting priorities and uncertain funding, longitudinal data systems may not be up to the task of tracking student trajectories.
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Some education officials say building trust with parents and students has been key to the success of California's Phone-Free School Act, and will be essential in the conversations to come.
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Microsoft will provide $82,500 in grant money to assistant professors at Washington State University, to support them in developing an AI integration road map for rural K-12 schools in three northwestern states.
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With some significant bills around cellphones and social media already signed, and the wide-open governor's race still looming, the next few years in California politics could be consequential for ed tech.
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The program at the Western Michigan school is now accredited as a Center of Academic Excellence in Secure Artificial Intelligence. Students can specialize in cybersecurity, machine learning and language processing.
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The Volusia County Sheriff's Office announced that the program will deploy non-lethal drones within seconds after an emergency alert, such as during a school shooting, and relay real-time video footage to law enforcement.
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Funded by a $5.5 million grant from the EPA, the electric buses now represent about a third of West Aurora School District 129's fleet. The district expects the new buses will save around $120,000 annually.
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Grants from Google will go toward STEM educational programs, a data dashboard, new AI sports programming for students, AI training for educators and a new master’s degree in AI at Oklahoma State University.
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States are issuing new guidelines for artificial intelligence in school at a rapid pace, but ed-tech leaders say many of the policies lack the vision needed for deeper classroom transformation.
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Building foundational pedagogical techniques for the teaching of AI, with no baseline, no historical data and no trials, will be complicated. Ohio’s regulatory framework is a good place for other states to start.
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North Dakota is expanding its partnership with the virtual reality platform CareerViewXR, which donated a VR headset to every middle and high school in the state and offers 360-degree experiences at virtual job sites.
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Through its new AI in Education Network, the American Institutes for Research aims to give educators and policymakers a clearer understanding of how AI tools are performing in real-world settings.
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Starting this spring, students at Broken Arrow High School and Broken Arrow Virtual Academy in Oklahoma will be able to take an AI Foundations class, which will include lessons on coding and storytelling through data.
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