New York City public schools are facing technical issues with remote learning Tuesday morning after the nation's largest school system pivoted online for the city's largest snowfall in two dry years.
An online grading and attendance system widely used in New York City public schools has been down for four days after the company that owns the program began investigating a possible security breach the Daily News has learned. Illuminate Education, the company that owns online gradebook Skedula and its student and parent counterpart PupilPath, has been dealing with major outages since at least Saturday, when the company began probing an “attempted security incident,” said Illuminate’s Chief Operating Officer Scott Virkler, who didn’t of ...
As the outage of the online grading and attendance system used by many New York City public schools drags into its seventh day, experts say they are worried the program was the target of a ransomware attack. Skedula, the website many city teachers use to enter grades, daily attendance and store student and parent contact information, and PupilPath, its student-and-parent-facing counterpart, have been down since last Saturday with the exception of a brief restoration of the mobile app Thursday night. ...
Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely-used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student data in the U.S. Furious city Education Department officials are accusing Illuminate Education, the California-based company behind the popular Skedula and PupilPath platforms, of misrepresenting its cybersecurity measures by certifying that it e ...
With schools closed and social-distancing rules still in effect, the city will hold a single large online ceremony for seniors graduating from public high schools this year, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday. “We’re going to do one big celebration of New York City’s high school seniors,” he told reporters. “We’re going to make it something very special.” · Speakers will include “an extraordinary roster” of previous public school grads who have gone on to great things on the national and world stages, de Blasio said, with details t ...
Some New York City students who’ve missed too many remote classes because of faulty devices and unreliable internet are being threatened with having child services notified, parents and advocates told the Daily News. At least two parents say their children are being unfairly targeted for virtual absences stemming from circumstances outside their control, including malfunctioning city-issued iPads and spotty internet in city homeless shelters. South Bronx mom Regina Alston’s two Education Department iPads have been on the fritz with a repair ...
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Over the past two weeks, teachers, students and parents in NYC have begun using online tools to cope with a new system for remote learning.
After New York City cleared the way for families to list their child’s gender as “X” instead of “M” or “F,” officials released statistics for the first time on how many families selected that designation for their child’s school records. The numbers are small for now: Just 108 nonbinary, gender fluid, or gender expansive students used the “X” designation last school year out of more than a million children in the city’s public schools, including charters. But advocates say the new statistics represent an important mileston ...