K-12 Schools Share Their Strategies for Addressing the Coming Federal Funding Cliff

January 11, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially ended the conversation about whether school districts should embrace one-to-one programs that put a computing device into the hands of every student.
“During COVID, a large number of individual devices were deployed,” says Amy McLaughlin, Cybersecurity Initiative director at the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN). “We exited the conversation of, ‘Should we do one-to-one?’ and entered the conversation of, ‘How do we maintain one-to-one?’”
Historically, many school districts have struggled to build device refresh cycles into their operating budgets. Often…

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Checklist: Should Your K–12 School District Delay Making Networking Upgrades?

Upgrading networks is a major priority for K—12 school districts. According to the 2022 EdTech Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking, respondents shared that network…

May 27, 2022

CoSN2022: 5 Ways Schools Can Prepare for Cybersecurity Insurance Risk Assessments

As devices and online applications become more robust, cybersecurity becomes more important. Because of this, it also becomes more expensive to insure. Amy McLaughlin, cybersecurity…

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Elon Musk says Twitter’s deputy general counsel Jim Baker was “exited”, citing “concerns” over the “suppression of information” related to the “Twitter Files” (William Turton/Bloomberg)

William Turton / Bloomberg:
Elon Musk says Twitter’s deputy general counsel Jim Baker was “exited”, citing “concerns” over the “suppression of information” related to the “Twitter Files” — Jim Baker, Twitter Inc.’s deputy general counsel, was pushed out of the company …

December 7, 2022

Analyzing ROI Helps IT Leaders Make Decisions Ahead of the Funding Cliff

The coming years are set to see a slowdown — if not an outright stop — in the emergency government funding that supported many K–12 school districts throughout the pandemic and beyond. The technology solutions districts purchased and relied on during that time, notably subscription-based software applications, now present a problem: The money will stop, but subscription fees won’t.
The result is that K–12 district leaders are facing a funding cliff. “Come the 2024-2025 school year, a combination of declining enrollments, stimulus funding running out and an economic downturn could lead to a…

October 6, 2022

GM’s Cruise says it has developed four in-house chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025, including an ARM-based computing chip called Horta (Reuters)

Reuters:
GM’s Cruise says it has developed four in-house chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025, including an ARM-based computing chip called Horta — General Motors’ (GM.N) autonomous driving unit Cruise has developed its own chips for self-driving cars to be deployed by 2025 …

September 14, 2022

ISTELive 2022: 7 Sustainability Planning Tips for K–12 Technology Leaders

Many school districts are rushing to spend state and federal dollars allocated to ed tech before losing that money for good over the next two…

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