K–12 Technology Leaders Are Doing Too Much: 3 Ways to Reclaim Strategic Focus

Technology directors touch nearly everything that happens in a school system. Here are three strategies these IT leaders can use to navigate their many duties without losing strategic focus, influence, or sustainability.

Stronger Start: The new school year calls for new resources

Back-to-school is one of the most important times of year for you, your staff, students and community. Classrooms are re-opening and schools are welcoming families, managing operations, launching new priorities, and trying to give every student the strongest possible start. You deserve to get this year off to a Stronger Start – PowerSchool can help you drive efficiency through your district operations to save time and money as you navigate the new school year.

CoSN: 3 Principles that Should Guide Screen Time Policies in Schools

CoSN, the professional association for K-12 education technology leaders, has released new guidance to help schools navigate the screen time debate and develop technology policies that protect students while supporting learning.

Department of Education Issues New Guidance on Education Technology and Screen Time

In an Aug. 20 Dear Colleague Letter from Kirsten Baesler, assistant secretary of the United States Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, ED outlines new guidance to frame the national conversation around the educational value of technology in schools.

Survey: Agentic AI Moves from Pilot Phase to Production, Bringing Governance to the Forefront

A new report from Caylent, an AI-focused Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Services Partner, found that enterprises are already moving agentic AI beyond pilots and into production environments. At the same time, organizations are putting strict conditions around autonomy, making governance and control the next major challenge for enterprise AI adoption.

Studies Suggest AI Is Accelerating Familiar Cyber Attacks

Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference demonstrates that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.

Tech Industry Leaders Launch Alliance for AI Agent Security

NVIDIA and 36 other industry partners are targeting agent security across multi-vendor clouds by combining open technologies for workload identity, agent controls, vulnerability scanning, and software supply-chain security.

AI Attacks Push Organizations Toward Autonomous Cybersecurity Defense

Artificial intelligence is raising the stakes of cyber conflict as attackers use the technology to accelerate reconnaissance, uncover vulnerabilities, and launch attacks faster than many security teams can respond, according to a new report from agentic AI security company Kai.

Why Screen Time Limits Are Not the Answer

At a fundamental level, screen time policies and laws aim to address academic achievement by balancing digital instruction with traditional teaching methods. But they do not tackle how devices are used.

Content Infrastructure, Governance Lag Behind Agentic AI Adoption

AI agents have moved into mainstream enterprise use, but the content infrastructure needed to support them has struggled to keep up, according to a new report from cloud content management company Box.

Microsoft, Nvidia Push Enterprise AI into Active Cyber Defense

AI security is entering a new stage as enterprise organizations look beyond protecting models from prompt injection, unauthorized access, and data exposure.

Anthropic Intros Invisible Watermarks to Claude-Generated Text

Anthropic announced it is introducing machine-readable watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models as it moves to comply with European Union AI transparency rules.

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