The education section of @govtechnews, with original and curated reporting on the transformation of K-12 and higher education through technology.
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With the FCC still taking public comments on the E-rate program, a leader from The School Superintendents Association explains which districts are most at risk and why a final decision could be months or years away.
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A cybersecurity education program at Lakota Local School District in Ohio launched seven years ago with 60 students and has since grown to about 200 per year, giving high schoolers a head start on high-demand careers.
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Colleges and universities across Massachusetts have or are currently using Flock cameras or other license plate readers, and some students and staff are responding by decorating the cameras to draw attention to them.
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Ohio lawmakers approved grant funding to help K-12 districts purchase silent panic alarms, gunshot-detection systems and technology that allows law enforcement to access school security cameras during emergencies.
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BCR Cyber is extending its community college workforce training initiative into high school, beginning with approximately 15 students. If it's successful, organizers hope the model could expand to other Maryland schools.
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Milford Public Schools has been surveying teachers and collecting data on the classroom management platform Securly to assess their use of certain tools, finding that screen time increases as students get older.
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Columbia is opening claims from a settlement over a cyber attack, discovered in June 2025, that compromised Social Security numbers, addresses, demographic details, financial-account information, academic histories and medical information.
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Jerome School District in Idaho was closed for two days last month following a ransomware attack. District leaders say the culprits demanded "way too much" and, because the district didn't pay, are now threatening to post data on the dark web.
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Backed by more than $125 million in public and private funding, a statewide initiative will connect New Jersey colleges to advanced computing resources for AI research, student training and workforce development.
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A new Cyber Security Operations Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the fifth of its kind in the state, opens after data breaches hit nearly 4.5 million Massachusetts residents in 2024.
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UND CONNECT is a program that provides University of North Dakota faculty and students with opportunities to engage in community-based research, development and outreach projects.
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In Howard County schools, all assignments are considered AI-free unless a teacher allows its use. When AI is permitted, students must follow set boundaries and disclose or cite their use of the technology.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill admissions staff say AI is no longer useful for evaluating essays, because students writing them use AI to avoid the kinds of errors that such tools used to catch.
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In Connecticut, state officials and business leaders are forging relationships with universities to give students more inroads to growing, tech-focused fields and early opportunities with employers.
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A cyber attack on Florida's website for college scholarships and grants, like the lottery-funded Bright Futures program, may have compromised social security numbers and other sensitive information.
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In a debate yesterday hosted by Johns Hopkins University, higher education leaders agreed that AI has been problematic for learning so far but disagreed on the scale of those problems, and if responsible use will win the day.
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Project Tomorrow’s national survey and accompanying webinar suggested that young people see technology literacy, critical thinking and real-world problem solving as interconnected skills.
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Coming up on four years since the public launch of ChatGPT, some Texas school districts have restricted AI use for younger students while others are going full-bore with AI-focused campuses and programs.
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Since its launch in 2018, a career training center in Buffalo has coached about 1,800 students to work in fields like welding, mechatronics, automotive technology, electrical construction and now clean energy.
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A private Catholic university in Connecticut will use a grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to offer high schoolers 30 hours of instruction in basic cybersecurity concepts and exercises.
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