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Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP could hinder student access to free school meals

1 week ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid during the budget reconciliation could have severe ripple effects for school nutrition operations in districts and states nationwide — particularly when it comes to expanding universal school meal policies, advocates warn.
Is federal support waning for registered teacher apprenticeships?

1 week ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Staffed Up is a monthly series examining school staffing best practices and solutions for teacher recruitment and retention. Catch up on previous installments here. As momentum grows for registered teacher apprenticeships nationwide, advocates fear federal support for the workforce model is starting to wane.
Oklahoma religious charter remains blocked in SCOTUS split

2 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The nation's first religious public charter school will not be able to open its doors in Oklahoma after a 4-4 split in the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday morning upheld the state supreme court’s ruling that blocked the school. The high court did not issue written opinions in the case. In its June 2024 ruling in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v.
College student charged in connection with PowerSchool data breach

2 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A Massachusetts college student agreed to plead guilty on Tuesday for allegedly hacking and extorting an unnamed ed tech company for $2.85 million in Bitcoin in December 2024, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. A person with direct knowledge confirmed to K-12 Dive that student information system software provider PowerSchool is the company in question.
Data breach reporting lags in education sector, study finds

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. It took the education sector 4.8 months on average to following ransomware attacks between 2018 and 2025, according to a report released Thursday by Comparitech. Schools and colleges had the highest average reporting time for ransomware data breaches when compared to the business, government and healthcare sectors, Comparitech found in its analysis of over 2,600 U.S. ransomware attacks.
Tennessee’s largest school district sues PowerSchool over data breach

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Tennessee’s Memphis-Shelby County Schools is suing ed tech provider PowerSchool, filing a complaint in federal court just a day before the company publicly confirmed that multiple school districts were being extorted over stolen student and teacher information from a December 2024 data breach.
What is the Community Eligibility Provision?

3 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. This is the latest installment of Study Hall, an occasional series that serves as a one-stop shop for must-know information on critical topics impacting schools. Alongside growing momentum for universal school meal programs, participation in the Community Eligibility Provision has skyrocketed since the federal program’s creation in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010.
What is the Community Eligibility Provision?

3 weeks ago | finance.yahoo.com | Anna Merod

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. This is the latest installment of Study Hall, an occasional series that serves as a one-stop shop for must-know information on critical topics impacting schools.
PowerSchool data breach leads to school extortion attempts

4 weeks ago | k12dive.com | Anna Merod

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Threat actors are trying to extort some public schools by threatening them with teacher and student information stolen in a December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool’s Student Information System, according to recent statements from the ed tech software provider and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. PowerSchool confirmed on Wednesday that it paid a ransom to threat actors shortly after the Dec.
PowerSchool data breach leads to school extortion attempts

1 month ago | finance.yahoo.com | Anna Merod

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. Threat actors are trying to extort some public schools by threatening them with teacher and student information stolen in a December 2024 data breach of PowerSchool’s Student Information System, according to recent statements from the ed tech software provider and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.