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A week of STEM camps involved classes designed and taught by Innovation Center student designers and teachers, with projects that included building and coding robots and writing scripts for cybersecurity tasks.

The 900-page federal bill is expected to promote private schools at the expense of public ones, reduce student loan options and food assistance, cut into school budgets and heavily tax private university endowments.

After a bus driver shortage resulted in a delayed or canceled routes and stranded students last year, St. Louis Public Schools has a new $30 million contract with Zum Services to provide and track buses for 220 routes.

Commenting on a Facebook post asking for their reactions to Alabama's school cellphone restrictions, many parents voiced their support, and some said the policy should apply to teachers, too.

New York law will soon require students to have their cellphones turned off at school and stored in a way chosen by their principals. Gov. Kathy Hochul recommended that parents start preparing their kids for this reality.

Principal Jessiah Gilchrist said Cedar Rapids Taft Middle School has had a policy in place since 2020 restricting the use of cellphones, and he said it's been "so effective."

A recent report by Common Sense Media says three quarters of teens have used AI companions, which are designed to be agreeable and validating. More than a third found them more "satisfying" than interacting with friends.

The 2026-27 Ohio budget mandates that K-12 districts create policies to govern the use of artificial intelligence and cellphones, and offers a handful of $100,000 grants to community colleges for implementing AI.

Projects announced at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University this week included new workforce training programs as well as cybersecurity education for middle and high schoolers.

Broken Bow Public Schools fell victim to a sophisticated phishing scam in the form of an email containing false payment instructions that appeared to come from a trusted vendor in ongoing construction projects.

AI models are trained to optimize outputs, but in educating children, the process is the point. If we assess children only in terms of what can be “trained,” we repeat the mistake of emphasizing output over experience.

The exponential growth of data in the information age has not necessarily coincided with more effective education technology. Making the most of this data will require trust and conversation between multiple parties.

The complaint argues that the Constitution does not give the executive branch power "to unilaterally refuse to spend appropriations that were passed by both houses of Congress and were signed into law."

Funded by a grant from the Department of Defense, a cybersecurity camp in Texas allows students to take part in exercises that teach them about network security, the latest cybersecurity technologies and ethical hacking.

There are conflicting studies on the impacts of AI on education so far, and the outcome of the newly announced AI academy led by OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic will depend on what and how it teaches.

A new $23 million initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthology aims to train 400,000 educators in ethical, effective use of AI in the classroom by 2030.

Facing staffing shortfalls and unable to renew contracts of many teachers who have been on emergency permits for multiple years, a school board in Indiana approved a one-year agreement for 41 virtual instructors.

High school participants in the New York Power Authority’s first paid cybersecurity fellowship program this summer received hands-on training and experience in cybersecurity in preparation for CompTIA A+ certification.