Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Several parents with children in low-performing schools view a child’s academic struggles as an individual responsibility — their child’s fault, or their own — but access to and understanding of school data can help them identify broader problems. For example, is only their child reading below grade-level or are a majority of the students?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

Rucker taught in the classroom for a couple of years, then joined the city of Baltimore as its Head Start coordinator, launching her career at the intersection of early childhood and local government. The local level is where the rubber meets the road. But the local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Consequently, test-takers will not be able to access their proctoring appointments today.” According to a notice posted by the University of Texas at Dallas: Due to current situation caused by COVID-19, EXAMITY has been informed by local government in India that they need to close out offices and support centers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Johnson’s War on Poverty, the program was responsive to research that suggested that the cycle of poverty could be broken through better access to high-quality early childhood education for children from low-income families. Originally developed in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

They work with schools, local governments, and other youth development programs to offer a series of five week-long educational workshops. With the app, Price says, Be The Change Venture can make it easier for young people to access all of their workshops digitally no matter where they are or what their schedule looks like. “We

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

How Ransomware Works (Image: govcert.ch ) A ransomware attack usually begins with a hacker or cybercriminal gaining unauthorized access to a school network or a specific computer. Ransomware viruses are designed to scan through a computer’s entire local hard drive and encrypt each file using a cryptography method.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2023

There’s even been a bill in Congress to address housing affordability and child care access in tandem. In short, SB 234 prohibits local governments from requiring small or large family child care programs to get a zoning permit or business license. Such policy reform can present as wonky and technical — and in many ways it is.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Students at coding bootcamps are likely to find a range of financial aid including scholarships, private loans or funding through “an affiliation with state or local government grants.” In today’s climate, perhaps the most pressing question centers around access. However data in the study shows that hasn’t been the case.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

At such high schools, counselors are often overwhelmed with large caseloads and unable to offer personalized guidance to students interested in more than a high school diploma, says Melissa Martinez, director of college access and success for Project GRAD Houston, the nonprofit that runs programs at cafécollege Houston.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2020

In the spring, when school districts had to pivot to remote learning sometimes literally on a day’s notice, a lot of decisions were made that were not in the best interest of security in order to continue educational services. Are you seeing any changes in the severity or frequency of these attacks? Coupled with that are budget pressures.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than two years ago, educators around the country began to engage in dialogue regarding the digital divide , as they recognized the reality that many students did not have access and connectivity as once believed. It’s an important idea, and one to which educators and education institutions should pay close attention.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2023

The county has poured resources into making sure everyone in the community set in the Tennessee foothills has enough technology to get online. As part of that, school families can qualify for free internet access. But even within Hamilton County, some parents feel lucky to have access. Those resources seem to work.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Digital equity thinks of access beyond mainstream solutions and meets learners and their communities where they are, providing supports and solutions that complement their current realities. Digital access creates two very different lives and opportunities for each learner. How do people live without it?! Meet Maria.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

We need state and local governments to step up, and state and local governments are stepping up. “We have this opportunity, just like we did with schools,” he says. It’s gonna take a village. We need ISPs to step up, and the ISPs are stepping up. We need nonprofits to step up, and nonprofits are stepping up.”

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JANUARY 30, 2024

As the early childhood coalition coordinator for Thrive by 5 , an organization that works to improve the quality of and access to early care and education in Noble and LaGrange Counties in northeast Indiana, Anderson had been on the lookout for solutions that could work in the region. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role. And that finally, we do it in a way where equitable access is the key. There was no such thing as qualified people. Recently you guys just had an award that you won.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

That I’ve covered over the years, specifically from the Office of Education Technology, when you look at things like advancements in the past 10 years, when it comes to digital equity, which was certainly one in terms of trying to ensure access to the Internet, to all students, especially from underserved communities or underserved.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

They acknowledged that the federal government’s high profile and large workforce mean its labor practices have the potential to set standards in state and local governments and private industry. Alternative credentials aren’t necessarily accessible to everyone, though.

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