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.
Hawaii will implement routing software and GPS systems in all public school buses to confront rising transportation costs and improve student safety.
A report released today offers an “innovation index” meant to help educators and businesses determine whether digital innovations deliver on their promised classroom benefits.
Of the $3.2 billion that public school teachers spent on educational products last school year, they covered $1.6 billion of those costs personally, a survey finds.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has awarded a $30 million contract to Apple Inc., as part of a technology project that could ultimately cost $500 million.
District staff are recommending that the L.A. Unified School District award a contract potentially worth $500 million over time to Apple Inc.
Teachers are largely influenced by recommendations from their colleagues, and the demands of academic standards, in their buying decisions, an analysis concludes.
A new report urges districts and entrepreneurs to work together to improve the process through which school systems select and purchase educational technology.
The Education Industry Association has launched a “Private Ventures for the Public Good” campaign to help connect for-profit companies with schools.
A set of “publishers’ criteria” aim to help publishers and buyers of high school math materials judge whether products adhere to the Common Core standards.