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The Florida Department of Education will use a new web portal to assess and address the behavioral issues of students statewide, according to the safety software company Versaterm.

The testing company Pearson will create and administer a digital version of the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT), following a similar transition by Advanced Placement and New York state tests.

According to several leaders of ed-tech companies and nonprofits, 2025 will bring a need for increased teacher and state-level leadership, better data, college modernization, and greater focus on the global ethics of AI.

A teacher and student at Deering High School in Portland, Maine, created a translation website to help teachers reach non-English families. It's now in use in 40 Maine school districts, nine states and one international school.

Carlisle Area School District plans to improve network bandwidth to handle video conferencing, virtual classrooms, large data transfers and online testing, which the state of Pennsylvania has mandated by spring 2026.

Shy of eliminating the department altogether, the incoming president could drive out staff who possess institutional knowledge, end federal guidance on key issues, close specific offices and curtail their functions.

After years of delays and $74.1 million in renovations, a new high school in Syracuse will offer concentrations including media technology, robotics automation, data analytics and semiconductor microchip technology.

A new data system in Washington, D.C., will track student outcomes from preschool through post-secondary education and employment, potentially informing decisions by parents, employers and community partners.

As part of Gov. Wes Moore’s $90 million climate pledge to cut emissions, school districts can receive grants for up to 85 percent of the incremental price of purchasing qualified electric school buses.

School administrators at a district in Pennsylvania predicted some logistical issues with new AI-driven security devices, but on the second day of the new process, officials said it was running more smoothly than expected.

Rhode Island is the first state that will use a federally funded service offered through MS-ISAC to automatically block all public school computers from connecting to malicious domains.

A high school in Colorado next year will start offering a course in unmanned aerial systems, with the high school providing an in-person flight teacher and Aims Community College leading an online, ground-school course.

A Bus2Grid project in Illinois will not only send electric school buses to 13 school districts, but enable them to discharge unneeded power back to the district, or an electric utility, when needed.

This year, 18 states passed laws that make clear that sexual deepfakes depicting minors are a crime. Experts say schools should update their policies to account for these AI-generated images as well.

For New York City's largest solar project to date, a San Francisco-based investment firm will cover installation and maintenance while the city buys $85 million in solar power from the panels over the next two decades.

Allowing people to speak over Zoom has led to the average number of registered speakers at board meetings quadrupling, and the number of unique speakers tripled in the 2023-24 school year compared to the year prior.

Students in a criminal justice program at Vinal Technical High School built a free website for first responders that gives daily briefings on hurricanes, disease outbreaks, power outages and solar flares.

Students from Gustavus Adolphus College and St. Peter High School in Minnesota hosted a program through Project 4 Teens in which they talked to middle schoolers about social media, phone usage and other topics.