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North Carolina's Child Fatality Task Force recently endorsed legislation to limit how companies can use data on minors, and it will continue studying the impacts of AI companions and chatbots. -
Schools in Alabama have a year to voluntarily implement a digital literacy and computer science course approved by the Alabama State Board of Education. It will become a requirement within 18 months.
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Encouraged by a new state law that endorses hybrid and online schooling, Northside Independent School District is looking for a vendor to help start a virtual school next fall.
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The partnership will integrate tools from both firms and aims to improve communications and response during school emergency situations amid growing concerns about school safety nationwide.
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The funding will benefit students at high schools in 15 Florida districts, and at three colleges. It will pay for training in emerging fields like enterprise cloud computing and mobile applications development, as well as traditional vocations.
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The nonprofit is awarding funds and research kits to teachers in an effort to encourage early interest in STEM subjects like robotics and coding, and to diversify science, technology, engineering and math fields.
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At Angeline Academy of Innovation in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., three students found the superintendent’s latest proposal so distasteful they made it the subject of their entrepreneurship class project.
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The Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners unanimously approved $6 million on Tuesday night to install weapons detection systems within 26 of the city’s high schools.
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Two of the state’s largest school districts, Newark and Elizabeth, are among the handful to receive grants from the EPA to buy 42 zero-emission vehicles through a third-party transportation company.
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Missouri's statewide "Close the Gap" program offered low-income students up to $1,500 each through an online marketplace with hundreds of vendors, but it was stymied by technical glitches, price gouging and lack of inventory.
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After a storm Sunday night, an apparent power surge affected the network of Spokane Public Schools at its downtown district office, leading to temporarily downed phones and Internet across the district's 60 facilities.
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Institutions across the state are preparing spring and summer events such as the GenCyber conference, WVSU's Yellow Jackets CyberDefender Camp, WVU's Camp STEM, and the University of Charleston's science camps.
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Legislation requiring computer science instruction in California was referred to an Assembly committee last week. At a time when tens of thousands of computing jobs are available, most schools in the state don’t offer a single computer science course.
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For the 14th annual Autonomous Snowplow Competition, organizers had to make snow, then shovel it onto the Dunwoody College of Technology parking lot so the robots could attempt to plow it away.
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Under Senate Bill 185, school districts would have to adopt policies prohibiting a student from using a cell phone or other wireless communication device during instructional time.
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It took a grassroots campaign by Nicole Manasewitsch, a high school teacher at Valley View in the San Francisco Bay Area, to revitalize the school's once-popular elective.
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Ahlan Simsim, the largest-ever humanitarian intervention specifically intended for small children’s development, found that 100 percent remote learning can help young children in crisis situations.
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A technology teacher from Penn Manor High School will lead the 1,500-member International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, which communicates the importance of technology education to policy makers.
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Money for the Emergency Connectivity Fund is expected to run out June 30. The Federal Communications Commission will continue reviewing public input on the proposal until a determination is made.
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Bay Area school districts are following Pittsburg’s lead as they slowly transition their bus fleets to a greener mode of transportation, so far including Milpitas, Berkeley, Fremont, Hayward, Palo Alto and Redwood City.
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A Missouri school district northwest of St. Louis moved to remote learning on Tuesday and Wednesday after unexpected activity disrupted the district's network. The district is without Internet for the rest of the week.
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