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The Parents and Kids Safe AI Act would mandate age assurance, limit data use for minors, require child-safety audits and expand parental controls. It revises a similar, unsuccessful bill from 2025. -
TDS Telecommunications LLC has announced that Mooresville High School, part of the Mooresville Graded School District in North Carolina, is the recipient of its $10,000 TDS STEM-Ed grant.
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Schools in the state have until July 1, 2026, to enact their own AI usage policies. The new model AI policy is intended to assist districts, which can either adopt it or customize it to meet their needs.
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Autry Technology Center in Oklahoma will host summer classes for middle school students to learn about technical careers, giving them experience building robots and learning about electrical principles and wiring.
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A partnership with the University of Mississippi Medical Center allows 440,000 K-12 students to get medical attention online for minor illnesses or mental health issues while public schools are out of session.
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Shift_ed, a nonprofit that promotes career and technical education, transformed a school bus into the Mobile Innovation Lab, a makerspace with hands-on activities to expose middle schoolers to STEAM fields.
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More than 120 students within the Laguna Beach Unified School District participated in an electric bike safety program in exchange for a permit to park their bike on campus amid concerns about speeding and safety.
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The nonprofit AI4K12 provides free resources and activity guides on its website, including important angles from which students and teachers should study AI. It is also developing curricula for Georgia public schools.
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A CyberCamp in southern Georgia is teaching high school students the basics of cybersecurity and Windows system administration, as well as introducing them to Linux, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Security.
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A new generation of AI-enabled classroom tools might help teachers and students move beyond the old “factory model” of education, which teaches all students at the same pace, to a more personalized model.
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Chatbots driven by artificial intelligence might help schools scale tutoring programs and act as a sort of support staff for tutoring, but they're still prone to mistakes and can't pick up on subtle emotional cues.
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A cybersecurity breach at San Diego Unified School District in October 2022 not only affected student medical information but also employees' Social Security numbers, bank account information, medical data and more.
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Using federal funds intended to help schools reopen safely after COVID-19, Utah has put energy-efficient air purifiers in 60 percent of its schools and 55 percent of its state-certified day care centers since last fall.
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A school district in Pennsylvania has added three electric-powered vehicles to its bus fleet to gather information about whether they're a viable alternative to vehicles that use fossil fuels.
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The iMerge Community Center in Alton is working with the K-12 computer science curriculum provider Mastery Coding on two-week summer camps that focus on coding for game development.
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A report from CompTIA Spark found that parents are broadly optimistic about the direction of technology, but 80 percent of them believe students need more instruction focused on digital literacy and technology skills.
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The department’s Office of Educational Technology, in response to the speed of AI innovation and classroom implementation, identified key questions, concerns and recommendations for establishing school policies.
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Pittsburgh Public Schools this week rolled out protocols for schools without air conditioning to deal with extreme heat. A day later, 40 facilities shifted to remote learning as local temperatures soared into the 90s.
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ERP implementations can be among the most consequential and difficult projects on an IT office’s to-do list, and success depends upon the right leadership, partnerships, clear requirements and commitment.
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Experts say AI-enabled programs can help shoulder the burden of tutoring and improve it in some ways, but they have the potential to give inaccurate information and can't replace student-tutor relationships.
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Parents and students supporting the the implementation of metal detectors and armed security at Township High School District 113 clashed with protesters this week, and a survey had mixed results.
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