K-12

A $195,000 donation from a local senior citizens center will help Clear Lake Community School District in Iowa add an instructor to its industrial program, which offers technical training in a skilled-trades field.

South Dakota high school students worked in teams to design and build robots to snag small rings, drag larger mobile goals, manipulate platforms and perform other tasks in a weekend competition.

A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the U.S. Department of Education to work with CISA on updating cyber threat response plans for K-12 schools that are more than a decade old.

Teachers and students at a Catholic high school and a pre-K through 8th public school are learning to collaborate through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a nonprofit robotics program.

Two months after a cyber incident may have exposed their personal data, thousands of educators took up an offer from the Missouri Public School Retirement System for two years of free credit-monitoring services.

Education policy advocates say the bill provides crucial funding for K-12 Internet access necessary for online learning, which continues to be popular following last year's COVID-19 school closures.

Initially launched with nonprofits, government agencies and schools who helped identify people who needed it, the program is being offered more widely to citizens in need of Internet or devices.

The online cultural exchange platform Empatico connects classrooms in 160 countries for interactive lessons focused on social-emotional learning and building cooperation, cultural inclusion and empathy.

The Missouri State Library system in Boone or Callaway counties is administering the Excel Adult High School program, an accredited online high school through which adults 18 and up can earn a diploma.

The Michigan district will continue virtual instruction while surging COVID cases affect both students and staff, with buses shuttling students from the high school to the Lenawee Intermediate School District Tech Center.

Slated to open in 2024, six academies will focus on information technology and cybersecurity, medicine, economics, professional and public service, art and engineering, and communications and design.

Given widening gaps in K-12 student learning amid an influx of federal money for schools, reliable two-way communications between parents and teachers could help students forge relationships and stay engaged.

A report from EdWeek Research Center and ManagedMethods finds many K-12 districts lack adequate cloud security protocols, despite their move to cloud applications for data storage purposes and a rise in cyber attacks.

District administrators at Norman Public Schools are unsure what to make of fallen test scores that are still above state average, and up from 2019 at several schools that hit 95 percent participation.

Seeing a precipitous decline in state proficiency exam scores, Illinois schools are looking to tutoring, teacher development, after-school programs and extra social-emotional support for students dealing with trauma.

The HOPE Task Force at Alamogordo Public Schools, N.M., is participating in a federal "Test to Stay" pilot program for students in close proximity to COVID, testing them every other day instead of sending them home.

The three largest districts in Stanislaus County are testing new grading policies that take life circumstances into account, allow for grade recovery and focus on subject mastery, rather than attendance or extra credit.

To get the most out of student performance metrics and recover from learning loss that occurred over the past year, education officials are rethinking data management with new positions and data standards.