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A multiyear initiative between a private historically Black liberal arts college and a tech company will expose up to 750 high school students in the Birmingham area to AI technology and workforce opportunities. -
HISD will convert Gregg and Clemente Martinez elemantaries into "Future 2 Schools," serving students from kindergarten through eighth grade and focused on skills needed with the rise of artificial intelligence.
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The tutoring and college-prep company Studyville Enterprises is nearly quadrupling its staff in the next five years and further developing its tutoring performance tracking and literacy software.
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While the initial rollout of the EZ A2B app led to some confusion for parents and district staff, administrators say it has put bus drivers and parents at ease by tracking where their student is at any given time.
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School IT leaders are experimenting with different methods to improve the life cycle of student devices. Without targeted federal funding, 1:1 programs will need other sustainable revenue streams to survive.
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A recent professional learning session for College Community School District educators featured speakers from Google and the University of Iowa, and conversations about AI's future in the workforce and the classroom.
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Kokomo Solutions, the company that helped Los Angeles Unified School District launch its telehealth program and anonymous reporting app, recently notified families about a network security breach in December 2024.
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Starting from scratch, Hartselle High School students are planning to design and build a mobile STEM lab, like a tiny house on a trailer frame with solar panels to power it, to hold workshops for kids.
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Starting next month, Modesto City Schools will host artificial intelligence training sessions for families, focusing on how parents can support their children in using the same tools their schools will adopt.
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In light of overwhelming interest in the FCC's cybersecurity pilot program for K-12, a nonprofit think tank argues that it's time to either make the program permanent or rewrite E-rate to cover cybersecurity expenses.
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A lawsuit involving several local governments, boards of education and other public entities alleges that social media companies knowingly caused harm to children and necessitated costly responses.
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Michigan’s cloud-based system, now in implementation, aims to integrate and refine data from across districts to provide deeper insights into student performance. A small-scale deployment is expected this month.
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Personal information, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers, from former students in the Lexington-Richland 5 school district was posted online, the district has announced.
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While Georgia educators still have concerns about the potential of artificial intelligence to enable cheating and data collection, many of them are implementing new parameters, tools and even career pathways for AI.
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Intended to be flexible for students with social anxieties or full-time jobs, a district-run virtual school in North Dakota meets with every student family before enrollment to assess if online learning is right for them.
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San Francisco Unified School District teachers filed a state labor complaint after a new $20 million payroll system led to incorrect deduction of union dues, missing vacation pay and incorrect pay for substitutes.
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United Independent School District is aligning school leaders with law enforcement, community groups and local nonprofits to teach students and parents about topics like cyber bullying and responsible screen time.
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A new, federally supported framework outlines four key steps to help schools from preschool to college adopt AI responsibly and inclusively. Educators’ judgment is crucial, it said, to successful AI integrations.
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Cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania spend more money educating students than traditional schools — after removing the costs of maintaining buildings and transporting students.
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The nonprofit AI Education Project (aiEDU) has launched a new program aimed at supporting artificial intelligence literacy and workforce readiness in rural and Indigenous communities across the U.S.
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As of last year, Texas had 24 full-time, public virtual schools in operation serving nearly 62,200 students. In 2014, the state had only a few virtual schools and less than 5,000 students in them.
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