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Hiring a workforce development coordinator with deep industry knowledge and connections, and making it easier for CTE instructors to get licensed, helped an Arizona district grow its network of business partnerships. -
As the new five-year funding cycle for E-rate begins, experts at the Future of Education Technology Conference in Orlando urged districts to plan early, document thoroughly and stay vigilant on compliance.
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Now headed to the state Senate for consideration, House Bill 4141 would require all of Michigan's public and charter schools to adopt policies forbidding students from using cellphones during instructional time.
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The Oklahoma State Department of Education will spend federal stimulus funds on summer-school initiatives to make up learning loss during the pandemic, as well as provide food, extracurriculars and mental health support.
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In its fifth annual Stress and Anxiety Symposium, the nonprofit Parent Engagement Network discussed the risks of technology overuse by students and the associated impacts on cognition, mood and behavior.
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What started two years ago as a push for K-12 computer science education in the rural town of Phillipsburg, Kansas is now a statewide effort, including the state department of commerce and the nonprofit NetWork Kansas.
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The ed tech company is looking for teachers and administrators to participate in its sixth annual State of Technology in Education survey, which will assess adaptations schools have made in the past year.
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The K-5 elementary school will start the 2021-22 school year as Elolf STEAM Academy, the first tech-based magnet school and a potential feeder program in San Antonio's Judson Independent School District.
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More virtual schooling has meant more network vulnerabilities, and a webinar this week recommended that K-12 districts consider monitoring tools such as ManagedMethods to accomplish what limited IT staff cannot.
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The youth sports advocacy group has partnered with the educational nonprofit TeachAids to share its CrashCourse software curriculum with athletes, parents, coaches and administrators in NCYS programs nationwide.
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Next Generation Academy in Greensboro, N.C. is launching 10 career pathways programs from the education company Woz ED, including coding, cybersecurity, engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence and drone piloting.
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Massachusetts state and local education officials have seen growing interest in cybersecurity training as cyber attacks continue to disrupt day-to-day operations in schools and municipal organizations.
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In an effort to retain students who learn better from home or have COVID-related health concerns, Hamilton Southeastern Schools in Indiana is preparing two virtual-only options for the coming school year.
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Information technology is among the subjects in which students in the Texas school district can get certifications, through a program expected to recruit future business partnerships across the state.
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Realizing the need for alternatives to one-size-fits-all education, Aberdeen School District in Washington plans to expand nontraditional options like career technical education, GED and online learning.
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The EPA is awarding more than $10 million to school districts across 40 states to reduce harmful school bus emissions. The funding comes as policymakers explore new programs to provide electric buses to U.S. schools.
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With money from the Magnet Schools Assistance Program, four schools in the South Carolina county will try to attract students in fields such as cybersecurity, computer science and network engineering.
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Guilderland Central School District last week became the latest of many in New York to suffer a malware attack, forcing students back to remote learning today while the district works with specialists to investigate.
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The city of Danbury, Conn., has approved a new academy for middle- and high-school students that will teach cybersecurity, scientific innovation, medicine and global enterprise, among other things.
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Advances in technology are changing what career and technical education programs need to teach, while the growing costs of equipment are increasingly hard for schools to afford. But they’ve never been more important.
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Montgomery Public Schools are collaborating with Apple and the nonprofit EdFarm on a new summer program to teach middle schoolers basic coding concepts that can be applied to the real world.
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