Another atmospheric river storm hit the state this week, downing power lines and flooding towns. According to the California Department of Education, 178 schools were forced to close.
There have been hundreds of cybersecurity threats affecting the nation’s schools since 2016. Last year, 122 public K-12 schools experienced some type of cyber threat.
A recent K12.com data breach left some 7 million student records accessible to anyone with an internet connection, according to a troubling report from technology website Comparitech.
Video games may have once been shunned as a wasteful teenage hobby, but a growing number of high schools and colleges are now treating them as a serious sport.
The digital divide between parents and their children can have all sorts of consequences affecting everything from academics to safety.