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.
Bitwise Industries was founded in 2013 by Central Valley natives Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin Jr. The two went on to create a 250,000-square-foot space which MakerCity.com describes as “part school, part incubator, part auditorium, and 100% tech ecosystem.”
Another day, another dramatic development at the Fairfax Unified School District.
California school districts will be discouraged from allowing students to take advanced math courses under proposed changes to the California Mathematics Framework.
California will spend a record $93.7 billion from its general fund on education this year under the 2021-22 budget bill passed by the Legislature.
California voters have rejected a statewide ballot measure that would have reinstated affirmative action in college admissions processes in California.
So at this point, it looks like the state doesn’t have a clue what it’s doing when it comes to ensuring public health in schools this fall.