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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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One Alabama university’s students can enroll in the first “Hacking for Defense (H4D)” cybersecurity class, which begins in the state during the upcoming spring semester, aiming to help bolster cybersecurity expertise.
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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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The College of William & Mary committed to producing 930 more graduates with degrees in computer science over the next 20 years, with the state allocating more than $1.3 million a year to help the college reach its goal.
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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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Researchers are striving to apply machine learning to psychiatry through a speech-based mobile app that can categorize a person’s mental health status just as well, or even better, than a human clinician can.
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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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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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The new center, which has plans to offer a new M.S. degree in the field for students, also is aimed at helping to fill a large expected shortfall in workers who are qualified to take on cybersecurity jobs.
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University of North Florida Chemistry professor Joshua Melko, began using an online streaming service to connect with students. The result is a wacky, scientifically dense event that has more than 1,800 followers.
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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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Amarillo College, which was named one of the top 150 community colleges in the nation by the Aspen Institute, has opened The Underground, an interactive learning center for collaborative education, at a cost of $2.2 million.
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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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The Southern California university is helping an assortment of government groups tap into a relatively new data platform that provides innovative opportunities for research, policy and storytelling.
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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.
