A survey from American Express projects major tech spending by parents for back-to-school time, while the National Retail Federation’s poll projects reduced spending on electronics.
The Software & Information Industry Association is looking for promising ed tech companies for its latest Innovation Incubator competition.
Cash-strapped schools get funds from Fortune 500 corporate sponsors in deals brokered by Education Funding Partners Inc.
Online schools in Florida, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee face enrollment challenges as the result of new legislation, recruitment troubles, and increased competition.
An RFP for curricula will be released Sept. 1 by the National Joint Powers Alliance, a cooperative that counts about 10,000 schools among its members.
Providers of supplemental education services in eight districts in the Golden State are likely to lose revenues now that an NCLB waiver has been granted.
The Incubator School in Los Angeles is almost ready to open for public school 6th and 7th graders who will learn about entrepreneurship.
Many supplemental education service firms that provide tutors under NCLB are scrambling to find new streams of income, or have closed, since waivers.
Some school districts want more help with mathematics materials to meet Common Core State Standards, and they prefer a “process vs. product” approach as they make purchasing decisions to meet the standards.
More than 125 business owners serving the education marketplace are gathered in Dallas for EDVentures 2013 to be educated about the K-12 landscape.