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A group of citizens has enlisted the ACLU to look into a visitor and student management system at Andover Public Schools Americans that uses facial recognition to screen and verify guests and volunteers instantly.
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Carnegie Mellon University is training a cohort of educators in Beaver County, Pa., with a background in AI who will be able to spur conversations about the technology and what it might look like in individual districts.
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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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A second, large school system in Butler County, Ohio, now has plans to offer thousands of laptops to high school students over the course of the next school year, facilitating increased access to tech in the region.
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SponsoredWorkforce preparation efforts and strategies will only be successful if special attention is paid to the underprivileged and minority populations in schools.
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Port Neches-Groves ISD lost access to files on all computer systems this week after being attacked by ransomware, a type of cyberattack that renders files unusable and then demands money for restoring access.
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The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corp. is continuing to work this week to bring its computer network servers back online after a hack that knocked out “all internal network systems” district wide.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo expressed concern over the funding for a proposed science, tech, engineering, arts and math school that could cost an estimated $75 million, with the state covering up to 98 percent of the cost.
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Eligible metro Atlanta high school students from seven school districts who don’t have reliable broadband Internet service at home can get assistance. This program is made possible by a collaboration with Sprint.
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A partnership with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing division of the tech conglomerate, will prepare high school and college students for job opportunities as more companies migrate their systems to the cloud.
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Over the last decade, Minnesota school districts have made tech a central part of lives in and outside the classroom. They’ve spent hundreds of thousands annually to equip students and teachers with a tablet or laptop.
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Las Cruces Public Schools Interim Superintendent Karen Trujillo presented some updates on the recent cyberattack that targeted the school district, prompting a shutdown of servers and devices across the district.
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With national support and the possibility of college scholarships, a growing number of high schools are organizing their video gaming students into competitive esports teams. But the activity has raised a few concerns.
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Macbeth Academy, an online college prep school, is trying to reach out and get more involved in communities of their students. The result has led to planning a student-run holiday food drive and toy drive.
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Students in rural El Paso County school districts don’t have access to makerspace tools. So, the county has launched a mobile STEM lab, where they can learn basic coding, use virtual reality headsets and build objects on a 3-D laser scanner.
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Worcester, the state’s second largest city, will use the funds to provide interactive online training to 1,800 government and school employees in topics from email security to USB device safety.
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