The White House’s August 25 cybersecurity meeting between administration officials, tech-sector and other private-company CEOs, and representatives of the education and insurance sectors yielded a long list of big-dollar corporate commitments to improve security, and the pledges of educational institutions to offer programs that aim to help swell the size of the U.S. cybersecurity workforce.

The City of Sierra Vista, Ariz. is partnering with the University of Arizona to help university students of develop real-world experience in social engineering techniques and improve city employees’ ability to identify cyberattacks.

As the new school year gets underway, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it has received requests for $5.137 billion to fund 9.1 million connected devices and 5.4 million broadband connections as part of the $7.17 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund Program. As a result of demand, the FCC said it was opening a second filing window for funding requests.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has pledged to schedule a vote on the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act by September 27.

Peterborough, N.H., confirmed that it has lost $2.3 million in taxpayer money due to two instances of email-based scams.

As the future of education becomes increasingly digital, having a secure and reliable data platform that helps deliver better services with increased transparency is imperative for all education stakeholders. Officials from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and New York University (NYU) described how they leveraged dashboards and analytics to make informed decisions while improving the return to campus experience for faculty, staff, and students during a webinar hosted by Carahsoft on August 24.

University of California (UC) Riverside will open a new tech-driven student success center next month.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it’s extending the deadline from Aug. 27 to Sept. 27 to receive applications to fill Tribal vacancies on the Native Nations Communications Task Force (Task Force).

Shortly after announcing it was moving to online learning due to a spike in COVID-19 cases, Rice University in Texas learned that there was an issue with the COVID-19 tests the school was using.

Alongside the start of the new school year, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights informed school superintendents that it will administer a 2021-2022 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).