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In a co-authored piece for the Miami Herald, the mayor of Miami and the president of The James Madison Institute explain the city's plan to offer space and lease land to STEM-focused charter-school associations.

Though a partnership between the I Promise program and crypto.com, students and families in Akron, Ohio, will get in-person and virtual lessons about cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and related career fields.

The grant from the Cowlitz Tribal Foundation in Clark County will go toward classroom technology for students and teachers at the Washington district, for which connectivity has been a challenge during the pandemic.

The North Carolina university and Randolph Electric Membership Corporation are seeking middle and high school STEM educators for a summer internship that will teach them about local industries and workforce needs.

Voters in Washington’s most populous county will soon choose whether to approve levies and bond measures for growing technology needs, special education, school nurses, construction projects and other initiatives.

The College Board, the organization behind the SAT, announced digital exams will run about two hours instead of three, allow more time per question and feature shorter reading passages, with devices provided as needed.

Created by the Air Force Association for K-12 students across the U.S., the CyberPatriot competition tasks them with finding cybersecurity weaknesses and strengthening a network's defenses against hackers.

A two-day workshop in Northern Georgia brought dozens of teachers together for tutorials on the potential of podcasts as educational tools, including how to create them and incorporate them into lessons.

Teachers, administrators and students alike have found that more time on screens and away from classrooms only worsened the apparent addiction to cell phones, leading some to seek technological solutions.

With help from ESSER funds and state vouchers for zero-emissions vehicles, Modesto City Schools is replacing half its fleet with electric buses, estimating an annual savings of about $250,000 in fuel costs.

A veteran high school athlete and technology official at other school districts, the Illinois High School Association’s new IT director has ideas to overhaul the group’s website with a modern look and more information.

Columbus City Schools has enlisted the family counseling organization Buckeye Ranch to help students dealing with depression, anxiety and other issues that coincided with social isolation over months of remote learning.

A school district in New York is running a job training classroom for students with special needs at the Colonie Center Mall, with internship opportunities in computer technology, construction and other subjects.

Morenci Area Schools will use a state energy bond, district general funds and federal ESSER funds to purchase lighting controls, LED lighting upgrades, new building automation controls and an energy management system.

Classes have resumed at Albuquerque Public Schools after a ransomware attack last week attempted to extort money from the district. The superintendent called for state or federal resources to help combat these threats.

Given the toll of remote learning on students, from mental health and behavioral issues to learning loss, Atlanta schools are taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to staying open despite record COVID cases this month.

The East Baton Rouge district is proposing to convert two elementary campuses into "focus choice" schools for health care and environmental education, backed by the local hospital and Louisiana State University.

High school students in Pennsylvania created prototypes for products to help parents and children in neonatal ICUs as part of class that teaches basic electronics, coding and creative problem solving.