K-12

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Esports Association that began five years ago now counts more than 150 middle schools and high schools as members, and it recruits students for esports-related scholarships.

Pennsylvania state senators are planning to introduce Alyssa's Law, which would require all public schools to be equipped with silent panic alarms that directly notify law enforcement of school-based emergencies.

A junior at Farmington High School in Connecticut won a $10,000 award from a national program for creating Code for All Minds, a computer science program for neurodivergent children and young adults.

Programs like those at Central New Mexico Community College or the Career and Technical Education Center in Hobbs (CTECH) are fast-tracking students for careers in fields like information technology and quantum computing.

Legislation pending before Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, touted to lawmakers by the safety company ZeroEyes, would earmark $5 million in grants for schools to buy security systems that comply with security industry standards.

The Consortium for School Networking's annual State of EdTech District Leadership report found 63 percent of district tech leaders "very" or "extremely" concerned that emerging technology will be used for cyber attacks.

Global esports organization Gen.G purchased an analytics company specific to the League of Legends game and will use the technology to develop student prospects in its academy program.

School bond elections across the state of Texas set the stage for millions of dollars in new student devices, classroom tech and networking equipment, among other upgrades.

A proposal at Worcester Public Schools in Massachusetts to allow students to keep their cellphones during the day but not use them in class for non-educational material has received both support and criticism.

Two of Rochester's state senators, Liz Boldon and Carla Nelson, are at odds over how to fund a program that allows students to earn a high school diploma and an associate degree as information technologists or LPNs.

There are more than enough studies showing the harmful effects of phone addiction on developing minds to justify imposing limits on using cellphones in school. Those who have done so are reporting all positive outcomes.

Indian Prairie School District 204 in Illinois is taking recommendations from its AI task force on how the technology could be used by teachers, students and administrators, and what constitutes ethical use.

The Howard County Public School System has contracted with an outside firm to investigate what happened last August when 20 bus routes were cancelled, leaving more than 2,400 students at 34 schools without transportation.

More than four years after it sold thousands of unneeded iPads to Cornerstone Technologies, Rochester Public Schools is suing the company for allegedly making late, insufficient or no payments.

To prepare students for a world of misinformation, legislation expected to pass in early 2025 would establish guidelines to teach digital media literacy in K-12 based on pilot programs at a handful of schools.

The potential for artificial intelligence to fabricate convincing audio and video of real people, which a disgruntled ex-employee in Baltimore recently did to smear a principal, is raising alarms about regulation.

In partnership with Miami-Dade Police Department and the Virginia-based company BusPatrol, Miami-Dade County Public Schools has installed stop-arm cameras on its school buses to catch drivers who pass illegally.

iCEV, a Texas-based company that provides online curriculum for certificate programs in many vocations, will share information on new courses of study, testing and credentialing tools, best practices and other insights.