Today's student must learn to code. Yet, many districts struggle to implement comprehensive coding programs that work for students in various schools and grades, and that keep up with advancing technology.

Amino Labs has partnered with MindFuel to expand its Canadian and U.S. presence in K12 education. The Amino Labs Educators Starter Kit, which is a synthetic biology starter kit for teachers, will be combined with MindFuel's Wonderville.org service platform to provide curricula-aligned lessons in synthetic biology.

Starting this year, New Orleans public schools are partnering with community leaders to address the city's own high rate of absenteeism through an initiative called Keeping Kids in School. It aims to address all the causes of absences, from truancy, or cases where students are intentionally skipping school, to absences caused by medical problems.

SchoolMint announced the acquisition of SureWatch in a move to enter the campus management and student safety arena. The news follows an earlier announcement about the creation of the company's EdTech Holdings platform, now named SchoolMint, Inc., the addition of Hero K12 and the subsequent addition of SchoolMint.