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A 19-year-old college student in Massachusetts pleaded guilty to charges linked to cyber extortion crimes, including threats to leak the personal information of of more than 60 million students and 10 million teachers. -
Gale In Context databases provide vetted content for K-12 students and teachers on topics that range from world history to science. One high school librarian is using them to show students how to root out misinformation.
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An amended version of Assembly Bill 1111, if passed, would allow small education agencies to have the electric-bus requirement waived temporarily. Most polled superintendents are skeptical about the 2035 deadline.
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The Polk County Public Schools district office’s individual schools are now sending out letters asking parents of their students to make a choice between eLearning or in-person school as the pandemic continues.
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The city’s school district will begin testing students and staff for the coronavirus when in-person instruction resumes on Monday, Jan. 11, testing 10 percent of its population on a random basis as a surge continues.
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This school year, more than 21,000 students in the Akron, Ohio, district are receiving online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the history of such learning in the district actually goes back decades.
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The bill, sponsored by Assemblywoman Monica P. Wallace, would require the Lockport City School District to turn off the 300 digital cameras it installed to feed images to facial recognition software in its buildings.
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Baltimore County public school representatives delivered a letter to district leaders, stating the lack of transparency and communication following the recent ransomware attack is “wreaking havoc upon havoc.”
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New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart acknowledged the significant gains made in connecting students to remote learning tools, but said there is still work to be done throughout the state.
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A national digital privacy think tank said the Pasco, Fla., Sheriff’s Office and schools must immediately change a program that uses student data to ID potential future criminals to comply with federal law.
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After Gov. Jay Inslee nudged Washington's school districts to reopen buildings, he asked lawmakers for $400 million to mitigate what's become known as learning loss while not knowing how much students have fallen behind.
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America's public schools often lack the adequate security to protect their students' most sensitive data from being linked on the web.
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Nearly two-thirds of parents of Las Cruces Public Schools children want youth in a hybrid learning model when the district is eligible to do so. However, only half of employees want the same.
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The Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals, seeks transparency in plans for a return to in-person instruction so the community can help it work toward specific goals.
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In a survey conducted this summer by the N.H. Department of Education, 32 percent of parents in Keene, H.H., and several other municipalities, said technical issues disrupt their child's remote instruction at times.
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Citing an achievement gap for some New York students amid school shutdowns, job loss and fatalities due to COVID-19, city officials have outlined a plan to build upon the technology already used in remote learning.
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Four Manatee County high school students who designed a new tool to calculate dosage for medicines have won the 16th Congressional District App Challenge, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan announced on Monday.
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Dual language has gained popularity nationwide, with a goal for students to speak, read and write both languages at the bilingual level, no matter their native tongue, but the pandemic is creating new challenges.
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt schools, doing so by making it far more difficult for teachers and other educators to effectively assess students’ academic progress in traditional ways.
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Parents and advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of California stating that it failed to meet a "constitutional obligation" to ensure equality in remote education during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Officials have been tight-lipped about what happened, saying an investigation is ongoing and they are working closely with state and federal law enforcement and the Maryland Emergency Management Agency to investigate.
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