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Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut have contracted with Timely, because budget constraints and reduced staffing have made it increasingly difficult for the district to create master schedules.
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A survey of educators who work in career and technical education found that nearly a third of those who don't already have programs in IT and cybersecurity at their school expect one will launch in the next five years.
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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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The Iowa Department of Education has approved a second virtual waiver for the Cedar Rapids Community School District, allowing virtual learning to continue in the district beyond Thanksgiving break through Dec. 11.
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Education in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — will get a major boost from the $500,000 grant recently received by the Grand Forks, N.D., School District from the U.S. Department of Defense.
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