"Remember, threat actors do not take a summer break," says James Turgal, Optiv's vice president of cyber risk, strategy and board relations. "Security is a one-time event but a continuous and evolutionary practice."
Here's one of the top messages for K12 tech leadership in 2023-24 that bears repeating: You really do have a role to play in every aspect of your district's operations. For example, the cafeteria refrigerators—and the infrastructure that surrounds them—may need your attention.
The road to recovery remains rocky as the academic growth that most students made in the 2022-23 school year failed to match pre-pandemic norms, according to data on grades 3-8 released Tuesday.
Three of the state's largest school districts to start the year with new leaders. At Salem-Keizer, Andrea Castañeda plans to focus on community engagement, relationships with school board members, teaching, and school operations.
Since the height of the pandemic, the education sphere has only gotten more politicized as families gained a front row seat to their child's education during remote instruction. These seven surveys from the Pew Research Center offer a timeline of how this partisan divide transpired.
Superintendent hires are continuing at a rapid clip so far this summer, while one leader has made an unexpected career move and yet another's tenure came to an abrupt end.
Grant Public Schools' board terminated its contract with a clinic that has served nearly 700 students this school year—and community members claim it all began with a mural featuring characters wearing rainbow colors and the colors of the transgender flag.
The concept holds untapped promise yet has been overlooked for many years. For whatever reason, the private sector and public education have never come together academically.
"For a long time, people looked at preparedness from an academic standpoint," says Scott Gengler, principal at Wayzata High School. "But I'm not sure kids see the relevancy all the time."
