Washington, D.C.-Area District Rebounds from the Pandemic with a Sharp Technology Focus

January 6, 2023

The technology solutions that were once viewed as emergency tools at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic are now supporting innovation at Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland.
CIO Andrew Zuckerman, who started out as a District of Columbia Public Schools teacher through Teach for America, is leading the charge. After taking administrative roles at Prince George’s County Public Schools and then Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, he returned to PGCPS during the first year of the pandemic. Today, he is helping to shape a digital equity–focused classroom of the future for…

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Apple’s unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Apple’s unionized Maryland store filed a complaint with the NLRB after Apple withheld medical, educational, and other new benefits given to non-union workers — Apple Inc.’s unionized retail store in Maryland is filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board after it was excluded …

November 3, 2022

K–12 School Districts Lead the Way in Equity and Innovation

School may be out for summer break, but every teacher knows that learning is a year-round endeavor. Even now, schools are working to prepare students…

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New York-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised a $56M Series C led by Cox Enterprises and Hanaco at a $400M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
New York-based Carbyne, which offers cloud-based tools for emergency services, raised a $56M Series C led by Cox Enterprises and Hanaco at a $400M valuation — Emergency services, long run on legacy platforms, are now getting a big boost of technology, and today one of the bigger players …

September 7, 2022

Q&A: Former District CTO Pushes for Digital Equity in Leadership and Learning

As someone who was born in Thailand, grew up on a Wisconsin farm and then rose through the ranks to become CTO/CIO of the Green…

Team LOKGEN July 7, 2022

Sources: seeking to increase profits, Coinbase hired Wall Street traders and explored using its own cash to trade crypto in 2021, including a $100M transaction (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: seeking to increase profits, Coinbase hired Wall Street traders and explored using its own cash to trade crypto in 2021, including a $100M transaction — The company completed a $100 million transaction before ending the effort. It says that it hasn’t engaged in proprietary trading.

September 22, 2022

Signal appoints former Google manager Meredith Whittaker as its first president, helping shape strategy, comms, and policy (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
Signal appoints former Google manager Meredith Whittaker as its first president, helping shape strategy, comms, and policy — Meredith Whittaker, the former Google manager, is Signal’s first president. She is out to convince users to pay for the free app.

September 6, 2022

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