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2 weeks ago | route-fifty.com | Comcast Business |Katharine Gammon

This article first appeared on KFF Health News and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic air from the burning homes, buildings, and cars, but it was unclear how much risk the public faced. So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers.

2 weeks ago | route-fifty.com | Comcast Business |Aleksandra Appleton

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Indiana schools could lose both state and federal funding they use to pay for internet connectivity, due to a proposed cut in the next Indiana state budget and an ongoing Supreme Court case. The combined effect could wipe out around $40 million that supports installing and paying for the faster internet necessary to support growing classroom technology use, advocates say.

2 weeks ago | route-fifty.com | Comcast Business |Rebecca C. Lewis

Gov. Kathy Hochul racked up her first budget win on Thursday after Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters that her bell-to-bell school cellphone ban was the first piece of policy mostly settled in the spending plan. But the budget is already three days late, and Hochul indicated she’s willing to go even later as she defended her fourth consecutive missed budget deadline.

2 weeks ago | route-fifty.com | Comcast Business |Jordan Hansen

This story was originally published the Daily Montanan. Energy and tech are colliding as the Montana Legislature grapples with cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and data centers. This session, lawmakers are taking up bills that could impact the high-tech industry in Montana for years to come, from ones that ease oversight and taxes for data centers to another that would help legislators grasp complex new technology on the landscape.

3 weeks ago | route-fifty.com | Comcast Business |Kaitlyn Levinson

In Texas, multiple school districts are preparing to close campuses due to budget deficits. That’s why the Arlington Independent School District in the state has turned to tech to help better manage school expenditures and improve cost efficiencies. The Arlington Independent School District, or ISD, houses about 54,000 students across 76 campuses, making it one of Texas’s largest school districts.