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The North Carolina company has partnered with hundreds of school districts and thousands of schools, helping them take their records management systems from hard copies and filing cabinets to a more secure digital space.

The free technology trials that helped teachers and school districts navigate the transition to at-home, virtual learning are now winding down, leaving educators with the choice of paying or going without.

The cybercriminals responsible for the Sept. 3 attack against Los Angeles Unified School District systems are now making ransom demands. Officials said they do not believe student Social Security numbers were accessed.

The new platform from Phenomena gives users a coding space to design their own lessons in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) related subjects, according to a recent announcement.

The money will go to St. Vrain Valley's Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program at Skyline High School to help cover the cost of tuition, fees, technology and textbooks.

The South Redford School District has canceled classes for the second day in a row following a cyber attack against its computer system. Cyber attacks against school networks are only expected to increase through 2023.

A report on ed-tech practices at more than 100 U.S. K-12 school districts found that app use has proliferated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, creating more data privacy considerations.

The STEM career pathway program directed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will become part of the Buffalo Public Schools’ K-12 curriculum, school officials announced this week.

The nonprofit endowed by Gilead Sciences has donated $3 million to expand Xavier University’s STEM programming for high schoolers. The grant will provide access to intensive pre-college programs to more than 1,000 students.

The company Winsor Learning will offer free professional development resources for teachers to help combat declines in K-12 reading and math test scores that have steepened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dixon and Sterling school districts alerted parents and teachers to communications disruptions caused by a “credential stuffing” cyber attack on the widely used messaging app Seesaw last week.

A nationwide survey of education and state leaders conducted by the State Educational Technology Directors Association revealed that cybersecurity and digital equity remain top issues for K-12 schools.

The county legislature that oversees SUNY Erie Community College gave the go-ahead to maintain the current, inefficient ERP system for three more years to protect student data while migrating to a new system, Ellucian Banner.

Some students at a Minnesota school district received lewd emails recently, likely as a result of student email addresses being inadvertently, temporarily readable to anyone who had access to the Speak UP platform.

The education IT security company ManagedMethods hosted a webinar Thursday to discuss ways that schools can make use of monitoring tools to flag and investigate school safety and student mental health issues.

A glass manufacturing business in Wisconsin issued grants to Burlington Area School District to teach modules designed by Project Lead the Way about computer science, engineering and other subjects.

Seeing how students responded to drone pilot competitions at her school, a San Antonio-area teacher is gathering support to persuade the University Interscholastic League to make it an official state academic program.

A California-based company temporarily shut down its education platform on Wednesday after discovering an intruder had generated messages containing an inappropriate image and sent them from parent accounts to staff.