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New guidance and a national artificial intelligence action plan promote utilizing the technology in education. Some leaders, however, said resources levels must catch up for those strategies to be effective.
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Methuen Public School District and the city have filed court documents regarding control of and access to the district’s IT department and systems as a disagreement over merging city and school IT departments builds.
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A law intended to prevent inappropriate sexual communication has complicated the ability of coaches, band directors and school mentors to reach students, and gave no specifics on how parents can provide consent.
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Gov. Mike DeWine tasked Ohio's schools with creating extended learning plans to make up lost ground from the past year of remote education, and the result will be heavy reliance on summer programs and virtual options.
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After months of online instruction, career-tech students in Guilford County Schools are hoping to return to the in-person classes and tools they need to develop skills and receive industry certifications.
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The American Rescue Plan presents schools with some high-stakes opportunities to make lasting changes.
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With the number of teens reporting mental health problems drastically increasing during the pandemic, text message-based crisis services like the one launched by the Trevor Project in 2014 are seeing increased use.
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Eighteen months after Massachusetts announced a three-year grant program for high schools across the state to develop "Innovation Pathway" career-readiness programs, a total of 49 schools have done so.
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With thousands of laptops loaned out to students for remote learning, the School District of Palm Beach County is making parents or caregivers responsible if the equipment is lost or damaged.
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The Australia-based cloud security company’s new platform for K-12 schools allows staff to filter and monitor content accessed by students on school devices, with the goal of cyber safety and flagging worrisome behavior.
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For technical schools like Minuteman Regional High School in Lexington, Mass., adapting to remote learning has been a challenge that required setting aside funding, supplies and shipments for at-home shop lessons.
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Some of the tools teachers have used to facilitate remote learning have allowed them to see and close content on students' screens, raising questions about privacy, surveillance and student rights.
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While still processing the largest corporate buyout in its history, Tyler Technologies is acquiring two more companies. ReadySub helps schools find substitute teachers, while DataSpec deals in veterans’ benefit claims.
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Texas officials mandated that students take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness in person this year at monitored test sites, although millions of students are still learning remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Med-tech company Cue Health hopes to expand the use of its COVID-19 test among schools looking for fast and accurate results through a new program announced Monday. The company says the test is simple to administer and read, without the need for a lab.
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The American Rescue Plan will bring more than $130 billion to K-12 schools to help them reopen safely, make up for lost learning and address inequities made worse by the pandemic.
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A Broward County school district official in Florida responded with "shock and horror" that hackers who attacked them last month seriously believed a public school district could afford a $40 million ransom.
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An updated report from the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology found schools are improving their support for virtual learning, but cybersecurity remains a looming concern as schools embrace ed tech.
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Three years after the school board endorsed more focus on science, technology, engineering and math education at Royalton-Hartland Central School District in New York, students and teachers are seeing benefits.
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With IT professionals in growing demand, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill last week requiring all the state’s elementary, middle and high schools to teach computer science by the 2024-25 academic year.
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The New Hampshire-based nonprofit Future in Sight has partnered with the University of Massachusetts Boston to recruit more teachers who can work with reading devices and other needs of visually impaired students.
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