The Trump administration’s fiscal year (FY) 2027 budget request for the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) takes broad aim at the office’s effectiveness and proposes to cut its annual funding by more than a half billion dollars from the FY 2025 level.
California has activated its Middle-Mile Broadband Network, turning on what state officials describe as the nation’s largest open-access public broadband system, and beginning to connect underserved communities to high-speed internet service.
Harris County, Texas, has launched a new digital platform to modernize how residents pay property taxes.
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) released new polling data today that revealed the majority of Americans, 74%, are concerned about the privacy and security of personal data held by government agencies.
The University of Pennsylvania has appointed Joshua Beeman as chief information officer (CIO) and vice president for information technology.
The share of students using artificial intelligence (AI) tech to help with homework rose sharply in 2025, according to a new report from RAND Corporation, highlighting rapid adoption of the technology across middle school, high school, and college levels.
A new report from Duke University lays out recommendations for a long-term strategy on artificial intelligence (AI), including investments in faculty hiring, student research, shared data and computing infrastructure, and more formal governance structures to guide how the university uses the technology.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has appointed Jeffrey Bardzell as the Worcester, Mass.-based technological university’s new Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences, heading up its computer science academic department and interdisciplinary programs in artificial intelligence (AI), among other areas.
State governments that are moving toward the use of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) technologies should apply the same oversight and governance lessons developed for generative AI tech, according to a March 3 report from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Wednesday announced a new multi-agency initiative aimed at expanding artificial intelligence (AI) readiness across America through the creation of AI-focused hubs in every U.S. state and territory.
