K-12

The growing popularity of electronic transactions has led schools to invest in tools like BlueSnap, a digital payment platform that expedites billing for expenses such as meal costs in K-12 and tuition at universities.

Video cameras, Zoom licenses and other purchases that came in handy for snow days became essential during COVID lockdowns, and now schools such as Lincoln Lutheran intend to keep them for conferences and other purposes.

In partnership with the city of Niagara Falls and Niagara Falls Coach Lines, the district will put cameras on the stop-arms of school buses to record and report when vehicles pass them at a stop.

In purchasing the technology adoption vendor EesySoft, the company behind the learning management system Canvas aims to build in-app messaging and dashboards to help educators learn to use and assess new tech tools.

A city community center worked with engineers from Sandia National Laboratories, a research facility, to introduce elementary and middle school-age kids to scientific concepts via toys and crafts projects.

The Detroit-area school district’s access to phone systems and software tools has been restored following a ransomware attack June 10. Officials last week were unable to say whether data had been impacted.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center has announced $3.4 million in grants that will serve over 93 schools, funding local programs and “maker spaces” with 3D printers, laser-cutting equipment and other supplies.

After a year of alternating between online and in-person learning, thousands of students at St. Vrain Valley, Boulder Valley and other districts are taking a four-week summer program to prepare for school in the fall.

Twinsburg City Schools will offer virtual classes through Ohio Online Learning, sponsored by the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio, to students whose grades and attendance meet certain criteria.

The 100,000-square-foot facility will host automotive technology, welding, metal fabrication and other career and technical education programs for Belleville Township High School District 201, starting in fall 2022.

A global pandemic that upended the way school is taught should reinforce the need to create lifelong learners. Education today means teaching students to think about the future in new ways.

Staff surveys indicated that implementation of academic standards dipped at least in part due to distance learning, as teachers were figuring out how to engage students and use Canvas' online courses.

With the help of matching funds from the federal E-Rate program, the Pennsylvania district is spending more than $180,000 to upgrade its eight-year-old network with 78 wireless access points and 12 switches.

The Enhancing K-12 Cybersecurity Act hopes to bolster funding for school cybersecurity, as well as federal data tracking of cyber crimes amid an increase in ransomware and phishing incidents in schools.

There are about 23,500 students in summer school between Tucson's nine major school districts this year, engaged in hands-on and personalized learning to make up for what was lost over months of remote instruction.

The University of Southern Mississippi and the nonprofit Mississippi Coding Academies have partnered to set up tuition-free training programs in coding and cybersecurity in downtown Biloxi, Miss.

The global shortage of microprocessors is prompting several Georgia school districts to strategize and assess their inventories of laptops, which will remain important educational tools even as in-person classes resume.

State and federal authorities are still investigating a cybersecurity incident at Judson Independent School District that took down phones and email, and may have put student information and staff bank accounts at risk.