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IT Spotlight
As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community. MoreToday's middle school students' future careers will be transformed by artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, and technologies that may not yet exist. Our career education policies need to prepare them for that reality. More
Sponsored Content
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. More
K-12 Technology News
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Ongoing K–12 Grants
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Sponsor: Rural Technology Fund
Award: $500–$2,500
Number of Awards: Varies, every 30-60 days
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Pitsco Education
Award: $350 voucher for educators and $150 voucher for student teams, applicable to Pitsco products
Number of Awards: 1 educator and 1 student team per month
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Awesome Foundation
Award: $1,000
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Cloudflare
Award: Free Zero Trust security program for K–12 schools with up to 2,500 students
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing
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Sponsor: Inventionland Education
Award: Funds for Innovation Labs, professional development, and Innovation curriculum (varies by request)
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing (rolling)
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Sponsor: Edthena
Award: Varies based on district size; matching grant
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: Ongoing (monthly reviews on the 30th of each month)
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Sponsor: Mobile Beacon
Award: Up to 25 laptops with one year of free 4G LTE high-speed internet each
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: Accepted year-round; awards granted on rolling basis
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Deadline: Ongoing (grants awarded on a rolling basis)
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Sponsor: Voya Financial
Award: $2,000 for each finalist plus $25,000 for one first place winner, $10,000 for one second place winner, and $5,000 for one third place winner
Number of Awards: 50
Application Deadline: April 19 of each year
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Sponsor: Toshiba America Foundation
Award: Two categories: Up to $5,000 and Over $5,000
Number of Awards: Varies
Application Deadline: For grants up to $5,000, deadline is March 1 of each year, and every three months thereafter; for grants over $5,000, deadline is May 1 and Nov. 1 of each year
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Sponsor: Association of American Educators Foundation
Award: $500
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: March 1 and October 1 of each year
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Sponsor: Association of American Educators Foundation
Award: $500
Number of Awards: Not specified
Application Deadline: March 1 and October 1 of each year
Upcoming Award Opportunities
Upcoming Webinars
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This session walks through the attacks schools are actually seeing, using real examples of business email compromise, account takeover, and payroll fraud. Abnormal AI will break down how each attack works in plain terms, why traditional defenses miss it, and what education leaders can do about it right now.
Date: Oct. 21, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM PT
Sponsor: Abnormal AI
Webinars on Demand
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Sponsor: Kaseya
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Sponsor: Linewize
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Sponsor: Ooma
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Sponsor: Meter
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Sponsor: MGT
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Professional Resources
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