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Gov. Kathy Hochul and Micron Technology pledged more than $70 million to renovate a high school building in downtown Syracuse that has been closed for nearly 50 years. Classes are expected to begin in 2025.

Watertown City School District and nine others in New York state will begin piloting an educational program in 2024 developed by teachers and Micron to interest and train students in semiconductor technology.

In the four months since Orange County Public Schools in Florida banned students from using cellphones at school, teachers and staff have seen positive changes. Some students are irked they can't use phones at lunch.

A recent cyber attack in Southern California prompted officials to advise students and staff to not use their district-issued devices while IT crews worked to resolve the ransomware affecting their systems.

A panel of educators on Thursday said professional development and putting technology at the center of instructional design are two important aspects of building successful online learning programs.

Thirteen school districts near the Mexico border will use U.S. Department of Education GEAR UP grants to buy ClassVR headsets from Avantis Systems, which come with access to a library of educational media.

Having ended its agreement for home Internet access through the Verizon Innovative Learning Program, Houston Independent School District will pay for individual hotspots that cost $15 per student per month.

California will require all newly purchased or leased school buses to be zero-emission starting in 2035, but some rural districts say electric buses can't drive far enough on one charge to replace diesel buses.

Some rural school districts in the vast and varied state say that the current infrastructure will not provide electric vehicles with the range they need to effectively get all students to schools.

Marion County Schools in West Virginia will expand its use of facial recognition technology to cross-reference photos of school visitors with photos pulled from the West Virginia State Police's sex offender registry.

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories recently hosted its third annual daylong Hour of Code at Potlatch Elementary School, where a coding education program taught students to build their own animations and mini-games.

A recent study of Generation Z’s attitudes toward STEM found that only 29 percent of them cite STEM jobs as their first career choices, despite 75 percent expressing interest in the subjects academically.

The Global EdTech Testbed Network boils down the process of trialing ed-tech innovations to four “I’s” — inclusivity, innovation, infrastructure and impact — while also calling for more resources and institutional support.

Houston Independent School District ended its agreement for free laptops and Internet access from Verizon over a disagreement about professional development. Now lawmakers are saying students will be negatively impacted.

In Ohio, Akron Public Schools have invested in magnetic locking pouches for students to store phones during the day, while Beachwood City Schools give high school teachers discretion over how to regulate them.

For Computer Science Education Week, computer science students in Colorado are using free coding games to teach the subject to elementary students at area schools.

With the addition of Soapbox Labs’ voice engine, Curriculum Associates has new language and literacy-focused tools in its portfolio that can recognize age-specific regional and cultural dialects.

The different needs of technical operation and pedagogy sometimes put school IT and education-technology departments at odds, but leaders can reduce friction with regular open communication and shared priorities.