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Teachers have gone back to pen and paper, and bus drivers back to navigating the old fashioned way, at a south metro Atlanta school system after a ransomware attack forced the district to restrict network access.

The Education Technology Joint Powers Authority was born out of frustration with the procurement process. It could become a national organization in 2024 and expand to public colleges and city governments.

A study funded by the Institute of Education Sciences found that students taught by teachers who had had AI-driven professional development in math increased their competence by as much as one grade level.

A Connecticut school district made three payments, totaling roughly $180,000, to a potentially fraudulent bank account between Nov. 3 and Nov. 17 after one of the district's vendors was hacked.

A K-12 district in Northern Kentucky this week announced that a ransomware attack had removed some files from their servers without authorization, and they may be published online. Details are under investigation.

The New Hampshire Department of Education will cover the $4.8 million costs of Tutor.com’s 24/7 services for all students in grades four and up, including adult high school equivalency diploma candidates.

The New York State Education Department's budget requests include money for electric buses, a system to track student progress, and hybrid school for students in the juvenile justice system.

The Department of Public Instruction’s Digital Teaching and Learning Division has $1.25 million available to fund digital impact or emerging technologies initiatives at public, charter, lab and regional schools.

The 25-year-old education nonprofit Michigan Virtual is launching a multipronged research effort to study use cases, policy proposals, ethics and back-end logistics for artificial intelligence in education.

A 2022 analysis by the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation found that students who said that they were distracted by other students using digital devices in class scored 15 points lower in mathematics.

The New York State Comptroller's Office criticized the St. Lawrence-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services for failing to maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory records of the district's devices.

The digital learning platform Solvably’s new AI Centers of Excellence challenge users to apply AI to academic or real-world problems. The modules can be tailored for K-12, higher education or professional development.

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.