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An Indiana school district awarded a $256,000 contract to Joink for high-definition cameras with cloud storage, enabling the district to better store and retrieve data and for longer periods of time.

Experts say uncertainties over stolen data will persist well into the future, not only for the district but for those employees and student families whose personal information was published on the dark web.

Guidance from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is that paying ransomware demands is a mistake that doesn’t guarantee resolution, but districts in a bind have many variables to consider.

An Illinois school district is weighing a proposal from the not-for-profit Future Green Energy Consortium, which has more bargaining power than any individual school, to install solar panels on rooftops and campuses.

Lockport City School District’s director of technology said the program, which should cost under $20,000, might help students recover from learning loss and give teachers insight into what they’re struggling with.

With 11 percent of devices distributed to students not being returned, Atlanta Public Schools approved one-time funds to replace them and plans to incorporate a replacement strategy into the annual budgeting process.

In the wake of news that hackers released a trove of personal identifying information stolen from Los Angeles Unified School District, victims are advised to call the district's hotline and set up credit monitoring.

Experts in student privacy, with years of experience in the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Education, say that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is long overdue for a regulatory update.

The annual career-focused event, a partnership between the Macomb County Planning and Economic Development Department and the Macomb Intermediate School District, gives students a real-world look at high-tech careers.

The Madison School District is taking some of its high school classes online because of a shortage of teachers. Roughly 120 of the district's 2,400 teaching positions remain unfilled.

As the U.S. confronts a tremendous skills gap and pushes back against workforce shortages, STEM education and building specialized skills training need to become even more widespread.

Students at Scranton-area elementary schools are learning about STEM concepts thanks to an $18,000 grant and a team of volunteer STEM teachers from the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.

The cyber criminal group reportedly responsible for the attack has published 500GB of files containing Social Security numbers, passport details, student psychological assessments and other information.

The CritterCoin platform is giving teachers in some Dallas classrooms a new avenue to encourage participation among their students: non-fungible tokens. The digital coins help to track student and group activity.

Officials with the Davenport Community School District reported that no information seemed to have been compromised when a hacker gained access to the computer system earlier this month.

Electric school buses are playing an increasingly large role in helping to manage the sustainability of the power grid as more renewable sources of power generation continue to come online.

Drawing from ed-tech leaders’ insights, a Georgia State University report said ed-tech tools should be developed and viewed largely as a means to bolster traditional instructional methods rather than replacing them.