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For districts facing tighter budgets and device sustainability challenges, a new turnkey curriculum from the technology vendor CTL aims to train and certify students as Chromebook repair technicians.

Maple and Superior school districts in Wisconsin partnered with Essentia Health to reduce wait times and improve access to care for routine checkups, illness and injuries, behavioral health and chronic conditions.

Experts say there’s no set number of hours, but quality, relevance and ongoing support — returning to the same skills throughout the year and connecting PD to student and teacher outcomes — matter far more than quantity.

New York state's policy banning students from having personal devices during the school day have led to improved concentration among students, though some parents have expressed concerns.

A new digital report card from the Alabama State Department of Education tracks data such as admissions, completions and exits of the state's educator preparation programs.

A private business based in Guilderland, New York, is hosting a student robotics competition in January as part of the Vex robotics series, with support and funding from the University at Albany.

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.

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.

Now with an official sanction from the South Dakota High School Activities Association, esports programs in the state are enabled by Fenworks software that stages competitions for players at school or home.

A Michigan school district approved a $1.1 million contract with Proximity Learning to fill teaching vacancies with virtual educators, to be aided by trained “facilitators” who will monitor and help in the classroom.

Experts say the success of school technology initiatives increasingly hinges on whether districts can develop coherent, sustained professional learning sessions.

High school students enrolled in a criminal justice class used virtual reality training equipment to get firsthand experience practicing de-escalation with police officers.

Following an investigation, the Texas Education Agency found that North East Independent School District was not complying with state law requiring school districts to ban cellphone use during the school day.

With $40 million from a private foundation and $35 million in state funding, a new initiative in Indiana will support a statewide analysis of STEM competency and new digital resources, among other things.

The nonprofit STEM Next Opportunity Fund is working with Qualcomm Incorporated to pilot after-school and summer programming in AI literacy at schools in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

A poll of about 900 parents of students in grades 6-12 in Massachusetts, conducted by the nonprofit MassINC, found that 66 percent either strongly or somewhat supported a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools.

One Arizona school district's career and technical education program exposes student to the semiconductor industry's manufacturing process, from the principles to the processes and the tools that underpin it.