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Legislation filed last week, if passed, would go toward recruiting school personnel, continuing high school "learning hubs," expanding career and technology education programs, and putting security scanners in schools.

New York state set a deadline that all new school bus purchases must be zero-emission vehicles by 2027, but school officials and politicians have questions about costs, charging infrastructure and weather functionality.

Project Tomorrow’s 2024 Speak Up report found that many elementary students lack access to personal devices after school, while students at higher grade levels are not using technology much for collaborative purposes.

At the National School Boards Association conference in April, school board members from across the U.S. said they intended to find partners and leaders who could help their districts make decisions about AI.

Teachers are redesigning assignments, administrators are revisiting policies, and students are still finding their footing as they navigate the new frontier of yet another disruptive technology.

The U.S. Department of Education and the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity will hold a summit in October and develop actionable insights for ed-tech vendors.

The critical incident mapping was developed by U.S. military operations veterans and adopted for use in schools. It provides first responders with a common operating picture, allowing for a more efficient response.

A handful of Pennsylvania senators have expressed support for legislation that would require student cellphones to be placed in secure lockable bags in all public schools during the school day.

A school district in Manhattan, Kan., wants all employees to take cybersecurity training after several of them clicked on a phishing email, and fewer than 10 percent reported it as phishing.

The Consortium for School Networking’s 2024 State of EdTech District Leadership Report found cybersecurity, interoperability, broadband and device access, and funding among top concerns for district IT leaders.

Baltimore City Public Schools approved a four-year, $5.46 million contract to put AI-powered security scanners from Evolv Technology at 28 schools. Staff generally supported the idea, while students were more ambivalent.

A website created by state and university partners in Michigan offers free interactive content, games and videos to teach students about media, news, and differences between fact and opinion.

STEM summer camps at Lee’s Summit R-7 School District in Missouri sever as fundraisers while introducing students to engineering concepts, mechanical principles, programming basics and related projects and activities.

Fifth grade science classes in South Florida will use the digital instruction and gaming platform Legends of Learning over the next five years as researchers watch for improvements in standardized test scores.

Middle-school students in Caldwell County, North Carolina, worked with Google Data Center volunteers and Raspberry Pi devices to build and test their own computers, which they got to take home.

Two dozen New York schools and districts joined litigation against Meta, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and other social media companies, seeking changes to their platforms and damages for student mental health issues.

Executive Director, Arizona Technology in Education Association

State leaders want computational thinking, programming, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital citizenship to be part of computer science, but decisions to require them will be made by local school boards.