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SchoolStatus Attend Update Adds Time-Based Attendance Tracking

K-12 attendance solution provider SchoolStatus has announced an enhancement to its Attend product, adding flexible, time-based attendance tracking that measures missed learning time rather than just full-day absences.

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OpenAI Launches Fellowship to Fund External AI Safety Research

OpenAI is expanding safety efforts beyond its walls with a new six-month Safety Fellowship that will fund external researchers to study AI risks.

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SchoolOS Launches Operational Intelligence Platform for School Districts

SchoolOS has introduced a new agentic AI platform for managing district operations — school requests, help desk, district assets, and operational workflows — in a single system.

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New CoSN Report Offers Guidance on Responsible Technology Use in Schools

A new resource from CoSN provides guidelines for creating responsible technology use policies and supporting digital citizenship in schools and districts.

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GoGuardian Launches Ed Tech Compliance and Risk Management Tool, Offers Free 60-Day Trial

GoGuardian has announced the launch of GoGuardian Discover, a new product designed to provide district technology leaders a unified view of their entire ed tech ecosystem, including tool usage, compliance risk, and spending.

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FERPA Was Written for File Cabinets, Not Cloud Servers

Passed in 1974, FERPA was never meant to govern cloud-based platforms, artificial intelligence, or the invisible flow of student data across third-party vendors. Our students deserve better.

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Report: Fast-Moving Ransomware, Router-Based Espionage Threats Target Education and Small-Office Organizations

A recent report from Microsoft warns about two active cybersecurity threats: a fast-moving ransomware campaign and a Russian espionage operation that abuses small office and home office routers to monitor victims' network traffic.

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AI-Driven Campaign Compromises Accounts More Effectively than Traditional Phishing Attacks

Microsoft recently uncovered a large-scale, sophisticated AI-driven phishing campaign that uses automation and legitimate authentication processes to compromise accounts more effectively than traditional phishing attacks.

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Report Finds AI Will Reshape Work More than Replace It, but Global Impact Is Uneven

Richer countries face greater exposure to AI-driven changes than developing countries, which are less exposed to AI but risk being left behind, according to a joint report from the International Labour Organization and World Bank.

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The Budget Cut that Changes Everything in K-12

ESSER funding, the post-COVID lifeline that enabled many districts to invest in data collection and research, is coming to an end. For districts that relied on those dollars to conduct surveys and gather community feedback, the impact is significant.