K-12

While school leaders at Orange County Public Schools are not second-guessing the need to provide devices to students, which they've been doing since 2013, they are looking at leasing and other ways to curb costs.

School administrators are being inundated with offers of the latest technology to help keep their schools safe. A panel of experts discussed the first steps to acquiring grants and using them for the right purpose.

The Academy at Larragoite in New Mexico rebranded in 2020 as Desert Sage Academy, an almost entirely online school for K-12. Some of its latest graduates say it offered flexibility at a time when they really needed it.

Two years after the Dougherty County School System in Georgia partnered with Apple to train teachers to use iPads, MacBook Airs and other devices to enhance lessons, teachers say student engagement is up.

Since implementing online tutoring services from Paper in fall 2022, Elko County School District in Nevada has seen significant year-over-year growth in the number of students using the service.

Western Maricopa Education Center school board member Robert Garcia recommends that school districts engage directly with employers to get a sense of what AI skills will be most important for students to learn.

The most recent legislative session saw a bill requiring every school district and charter school to set cellphone use policies by March 15, 2025. Other bills aimed to forbid book-banning and study issues with attendance.

An oversight committee at Mt. Diablo Unified School District, Calif., is looking into cost overruns on Schneider Electric's work to modernize heating and cooling equipment, lighting fixtures and building control systems.

A public university in West Virginia is planning a one-day event of activities for June 18 to entice middle schoolers to be interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

New Jersey's largest school district will work with Turn-Key Technologies to replace 2,200 outdated security cameras across 66 schools with 7,200 high-tech cameras that include vape smoke detection and other features.

Pittsburgh Public School students and staff from 39 buildings, which are not air-conditioned, will learn remotely this week as outside temperatures exceed 85 degrees. Grab-and-go meals will be available for students.

Microsoft is giving K-12 teachers in the U.S. free access to Khan Academy’s AI assistant, which can help students practice lessons and help teachers devise lesson plans, quizzes and assignment instructions.

One bus driver for Alexandria Central School District in New York said they would retire before they would ever drive an electric bus, but they changed their mind after taking it for a test drive.

Shore Regional High School District in New Jersey recently found that network intruders may have removed a file in April 2023 containing student names, social security numbers, financial information and other private records.

Oakland Unified School District contracted with electric bus startup Zum for 74 electric buses, bidirectional chargers that can feed power back into the grid, and an AI-enabled platform to manage energy transfers.

A new elective course this fall at Great Bend High School in Kansas, created by the nonprofit Enterprise KC, will include cybersecurity basics, skill building and a simulation at the Heartland Cyber Range.

A close vote by the school board has made Lee County Schools part of a lawsuit against social media companies including TikTok, SnapChat, Instagram and Facebook, alleging harms to student mental health.

Starting this fall, Nevada's largest school district will require students in sixth through 12th grades to wear ID badges and store their cellphones in non-locking, signal-blocking pouches during the day.