The American Institutes for Research, an organization that provides testing services, has filed a lawsuit in New Mexico state court to try to halt the awarding of a major contract to a rival, Pearson.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tells attendees at the ASU/GSV summit that entrepreneurship “is not a threat to public education.”
New York state reversed its plans to have inBloom, the education technology provider, load student data into the cloud, adding another setback to the organization.
Two decades after Massachusetts made major changes to its education system, a new report argues that it needs to address school funding and autonomy, to maintain its elite status.
Sixty-eight percent of district technology officials plan to delay or defer maintenance upgrades of technology and contracts, a survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows.
Washington state proposes borrowing $700 million against future lottery revenue to fund K-3 classroom expansion and construction of classrooms for all-day kindergarten programs.
State efforts to put a digital device in the hands of every student are proving to be more difficult than many ed-tech advocates might have expected.
A state budget committee has agreed to pay $6.6 million to prevent a school Internet network from being shut down amid a legal dispute.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler pledged in a recent speech that the agency will work to preserve “open, competitive, safe, and accessible broadband networks.”
New York state Assembly Democrats are the latest to register opposition to education department plans to upload students’ data to the cloud via inBloom.