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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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Great Bend will apply to the Kansas State Department of Education to start a virtual school in 2022. The school board has authorized the application, but it is not obligated at this point to start an online school.
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Recognizing the difficulties of administering tests during remote learning, teachers are adopting new assessment strategies.
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Santa Fe Public Schools will remain in the remote-learning model for the time being, with officials expressing concern over the newest staring of the coronavirus that is proving to be more easily transmissible.
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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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