A draft measure being circulated on Capitol Hill would bar ed-tech vendors from directing targeted advertisements to students, though it does not cover some controversial practices.
The White House Office of Management and Budget is changing its rules so that federally funded contracts worth $150,000 or more will require school districts to negotiate profits with contractors.
A proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler would raise yearly funding for the E-rate program from $2.4 billion to $3.9 billion.
A federal judge in Florida has ordered an online school that the Federal Trade Commission labeled a “diploma mill” to halt marketing to students.
Two recent court decisions offering contradictory rulings on core pieces of “Obamacare” could affect K-12 districts required to comply with the law’s employer mandate.
Iranian students have regained access to U.S.-based MOOCs following the authorization of certain educational exchanges between the two countries.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Stacey Childress will become the CEO of the NewSchools Venture Fund.
A White House report released today recommends modernizing the privacy regulatory framework that governs how student data is handled.
Federal Communications Commmission Chairman Tom Wheeler tells state education leaders that the agency needs to redirect E-rate money away from “nice-to-have” technology and into “must-have” services.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler pledged in a recent speech that the agency will work to preserve “open, competitive, safe, and accessible broadband networks.”
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