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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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Working with students as young as first grade, Nancy VanEenenaam, a technology education teacher at Holland Township’s Eagle Crest Charter Academy, helps children through the beginning stages of coding.
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Computer science students at Paul Duke STEM High School, located in Gwinnett County, recently showcased some new skills in a competition that teaches how to write code that makes music.
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The scholarship money will be available to 35 colleges, with the goal of strengthening the state’s workforce in technology related fields such as computer science fields like coding and cyber security.
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The chief privacy officer for the New York State Education Department presented the Lockport School Board with proposed revisions to its facial recognition surveillance system policy.
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The school district has received a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant for a distance learning strategy, enabling virtual reality field trips and Internet collaboration with other school districts over great distances.
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Luzerne County’s Dallas School District may be the only one that has implemented flexible instruction on snow days, but it joins 79 other districts in the state. The trend takes place as e-learning programs spread.
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Visitors to Springfield Public Schools will no longer be asked to sign in with pen and paper. An ID-scanning system is being rolled out to give officials better information about visitors prohibited from school grounds.
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The Dallas County School District is close to being ready to implement flexible instruction days if bad weather forces schools to close, with the state approving a total of 79 local education agencies for the program.
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Lunchtime coding event at Terra Linda High School showcases their brand new $19 million Innovation Lab to provide a space for students to learn coding, programming, digital animation, and design.
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One-on-one laptop computers, broadband networking and advance planning have allowed the spread of e-learning programs in more school districts across the country, rendering the snow day obsolete.
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Residents of Kentucky will start learning and developing certifications in virtual reality after a grant purchased 20 VR consoles to be used by students during the day and displaced coal miners at night.
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While in middle school in Howard County, Md., Saniya Vashist used her passion for computer science to start her own nonprofit, codeHER. The idea: teach female middle school students coding after school.
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Thanks to anticipated federal Title IV grant funding, Maryland public schools could expand or establish co-curricular robotics programs at county high schools, according to an announcement Tuesday.
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Students at Carencro High in Louisiana are helping to catalog litter around Lafayette Parish by using a new survey app that allows them to upload their findings into an interactive storytelling platform.
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EliteGamingLive, or EGL, is an esports league tailored to K-12 students that combines the burgeoning field of esports with educational programming to help parents and educators introduce students to STEM fields.
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Lawmakers passed a bill to shore up city school bus service after frequent delays and missing school buses last year. The law required that the city make real-time GPS data available to parents this year.
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Almost two dozen City Council members sent a letter last week demanding to know why the Education Department failed to meet legal deadlines for providing city school bus GPS tracking information to parents.
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More than half of 11-year-olds now own their own smartphone, according to a recent national survey of more than 1,600 children between the ages of 8 and 18 years old. And the trend is on the rise.
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