The federal government has launched a "clearinghouse" website to help schools prepare for threats.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/26/20
The series touches on the basics of how federal and state privacy laws affect teachers and staff, how to decrease the most common privacy risks and how to improve the transparency of what schools do with student data.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/26/20
Indiana has launched an education data portal to replace a previous one. INview, which has replaced Compass, was designed to meet federal accountability requirements for transparency under the rules of the state's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/24/20
Under the program, students progress from grade to grade at their own pace, based on mastery of concepts and skills laid out in Florida's Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/18/20
The U.S. Department of Education has grant money to issue to for-profit ed tech companies.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/06/20
Will there be a backlash to facial recognition technologies this year?
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/27/20
Here are the ed tech funding updates that E-rate applicants will need to know for funding year 2020 and beyond.
- By Brian Stephens
- 01/27/20
The learning and innovation in education never stops. Here's what 12 education technology experts and observers expect for the new year in K-12.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 01/22/20
One of the developments to ESSA’s new list of benchmarks requires schools to deliver financial reports that break out funding at the school-level — a task that was previously reported at the district-level. By December 31, 2019, each individual school must present their fiscal year budgets through an online report card. That end of year deadline will be here before you know it.
The U.S. Department of Education has simplified the application method for applying for small, rural school grants in 2020.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/12/19