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Gun violence and other incidents at school sporting events in the Dallas area have prompted schools to respond by buying AI weapons detection technology, requiring visible IDs and other measures.

School cellphone bans are key to combating skyrocketing rates of adolescent anxiety and depression, author Jonathan Haidt said in a webinar. Performance increases follow, California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond said.

Durham Public Schools, which serves the city and county of Durham, will receive 38 electric buses as a result of a new $15 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The vehicles arrive as the district is in urgent need of full-time drivers.

A visit to the Clay Center for Arts and Sciences of West Virginia let elementary students from the Upper Kanawha Valley learn about everything from surface tension to exothermal reactions. Their responses, educators and industry officials said, prove the value of STEM education.

The county is already home to six operational Best Buy Teen Tech Centers, but that number is slated to double. The facilities give middle and high school students a chance to learn tech skills that could translate to jobs in entertainment, fashion and other L.A.-centric industries.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School System accepted $2.3 million in grant funding from the state's Public Service Commission that will go toward energy-efficient controllers for HVAC systems.

Carlisle Area School District has applied for funding from the Federal Communications Commission's Strategic Cybersecurity Pilot Program, which could yield $200,000 for cybersecurity defense over the next three years.

Rhode Island teacher Benjamin Hamill beta tested four AI tools now available for math educators in the Kiddom classroom management system. He said the automated feedback tool gave him a “huge quality-of-life upgrade.”

A Georgia school district was making do without Internet and email services this week as officials investigated the source of a network outage. They did not confirm whether it was caused by ransomware.

A report from the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology suggests that schools should update their sexual harassment policies to better handle deepfakes, which have become a common problem in institutions across the U.S.

At the same time student behaviors are worsening and the rate of autism is increasing, school districts in Wyoming and across the U.S. are struggling to find qualified special education teachers.

The parents of a Hingham High School student are suing after an AP U.S. History teacher failed their son for using generative AI on a project, which then got him barred from the National Honor Society.

One month after a fatal shooting at one of their high schools, Harford school officials toured Smith Detections, a company that serves airports and the U.S. Department of Defense, in search of security system options.

Staff at Sutter Middle School in Folsom found that Yondr pouches created extra headaches when it came to monitoring them, but a policy of requiring phones to be powered off during school hours has been a success.

Elizabeth Barker, an accessibility manager at Khan Academy, shares her insights on how ed-tech developers can make their tools user-friendly for everyone, including the need for field testing, observation and feedback.

Two months after a student died on campus, the largest public school system in Texas is using a new life safety equipment management system to track certifications for CPR, first aid, AEDs and Stop the Bleed kits.

Students at George Washington Carver High School developed a free app that estimates cost of individual colleges, financial aid eligibility, loan options, repayment plans and future earnings.

Spokane Public Schools this year barred cellphone use in class at its 57 schools. Teachers are seeing more engagement, and students report feeling more focused and social, with more talking and playing games at lunch.