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The nonprofit believes preparing students for a digital future is less about expanding access to devices than about ensuring technology use is grounded in purpose, understanding and meaningful outcomes. -
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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Wisconsin is one of six states that do not have ongoing funding dedicated to career and technical education in public schools, and State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly wants to change that in the 2025-27 biennial budget.
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To give students real-world experience with technology, a school district in Connecticut will have them set up and operate microphones, visual screens, presentations and other technical aspects of school board meetings.
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California’s education budget is on track to offer one-time funding that schools could use to bolster cybersecurity. At the same time, new state laws are granting schools more autonomy in regulation of technology.
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After the state replaced Houston ISD's superintendent and school board last year, open records requests to the district more than doubled. Some parents want the district to bring back an online dashboard of attendance data.
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The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences Small Business Innovation Research program offers funding for the development of ed-tech tools by companies with fewer than 500 employees.
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Boston City Council intends to seek more information from school officials about a report on the city's surveillance technologies, including which areas of school buildings are filmed and how the footage is used.
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A $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant will help train a cohort of 60 Mississippi State University students to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing digital images.
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In partnership with UK ed-tech company Avantis Education, Los Angeles Unified School District has deployed over 16,000 virtual reality headsets for in-class and extracurricular instruction.
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Westville School District No. 2 has replaced its old diesel school buses with 15 electric, emissions-free models from IC Bus. The district purchased the vehicles with grants through the EPA's Clean School Bus Program.
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Otsego Public Schools in Michigan is notifying community members that an unauthorized party accessed data on the district's network including Social Security numbers, taxpayer ID numbers and other personal information.
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Hands-on learning experiences with technology, such as robotics kits, 3D printers and programmable drones, could become increasingly important for students as future jobs require collaboration with emerging technologies.
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Parents are suing Lancaster Country Day School, a private preparatory school in Pennsylvania, over its alleged failure to report or take corrective action in response to AI-generated deepfakes of over 50 students.
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Thanks to grants secured by the Green Team at Chippewa Falls High School in Wisconsin, the Hope Village community center and its 10 tiny homes will install a 40 kilowatt photovoltaic system.
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With grant funding to implement Project Lead the Way curricula, Northridge High School in Colorado started an aerospace engineering course to expose students to another career option in a growing engineering field.
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Set to take effect Feb. 18, Los Angeles Unified School District's ban on Internet-enabled devices will allow students to use them before and after school but not during the day, including lunch.
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In a Q&A with The Advocate, high school teacher Suresh Chiruguru talks about computer science standards, the challenges of a digital workforce, embracing technology and teaching for tomorrow.
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More than 2,500 applicants applied for funding through the Federal Communications Commission’s three-year Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program, which will fund expenses like firewalls and endpoint detection.
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In a recent presentation to the Alaska Board of Education, the state education commissioner inadvertently demonstrated the importance of AI literacy by relying on an AI chatbot that fabricated citations.
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