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An Iowa school district is ending specialty programs at a handful of elementary schools, in fields like STEM and computer programming, due to challenges with staff training and funding.

Federal officials say a new centralized portal will improve transparency and prevent fraud in the E-rate program. Critics argue it could complicate procurement and disproportionately burden small and rural applicants.

Board members and teachers at a school district in Connecticut see the need for formalizing rules around AI use, as students are already using (or misusing) it and there are questions around how staff should use it.

School board members at Greater Albany Public Schools in Oregon say the district's first year without smartphones yielded positive comments from teachers, parents and students, and major issues did not materialize.

After school officials and lawmakers raised questions about the cost and feasibility of requiring all New York public school districts to switch to electric buses, the deadline may be extended from 2027 to 2032.

The recent cyber attack on Instructure’s Canvas platform exposed how education’s growing dependence on centralized digital infrastructure can amplify the impact of a single data breach.

A student at a prestigious private school in New York state says the culture of fear around AI and cheating is prompting students like him to change their writing style and avoid using AI for any purpose.

To make SAT prep more effective and financially accessible, a sophomore at Dr. Kiran C. Patel High School in Florida created the tutoring app Aceit using a collaborative interface design tool and ChatGPT.

Among nine bills signed this month by Gov. Brian Kemp were a ban on personal electronic devices in high schools, building on last year's K-8 ban, and a policy to deploy over 1,300 full-time literacy coaches for K-3.

District technology leaders say schools are not facing a sudden AI bandwidth crisis, but AI is steadily transforming the architecture of school networks, devices, cybersecurity systems and budgets.

Consolidated High School District 230 in Orland Park, Ill., is expanding its use of the Smart Pass system from Raptor Technologies, which helps identify high-traffic areas and find students in emergency situations.

The AI use policy at Boston Public Schools includes a list of explicit restrictions, including against deepfakes or entering student data into unapproved tools, and mandates a strict vetting process for any AI tools.

Some students and educators who logged into the Canvas learning management system May 7 received a pop-up message from cyber criminals asking users to contact them to “negotiate a settlement.”

The May 1 cyber attack on Instructure led to a widespread outage of the Canvas LMS on May 7, leaving high school and college students and staff across the U.S. without access to coursework in the lead up to final exams.

A new facility at Michigan Virtual’s headquarters in Lansing gives educators, administrators and policymakers a sandbox in which to experiment with classroom design and emerging tech before bringing them into schools.

States that move toward shared accountability with ed-tech vendors on incident response, risk management, public communication and implementation will be better positioned to withstand volatility and deliver results.

More than three quarters of parents surveyed by the activist group PA Unplugged expressed concern about how much screen time students have and how school-issued devices are used, and districts are responding.

A $100,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Education will go toward developing an esports league, as well as new training and certifications aimed at artificial intelligence or summer bootcamps.