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Happy Monday!

Tomorrow afternoon, I'll be moderating a webinar featuring an FBI cybersecurity representative, a former district superintendent, and two education leaders on how AI is reshaping how kids are targeted online. It's the kind of webinar that, two years ago, might have read as overheated; today it reads as overdue. Education Week's Lauraine Langreo and Arianna Prothero report that the hacking group ShinyHunters claims it accessed information from 9,000 schools through the Canvas LMS, with a threatened leak date of tomorrow — the same afternoon as our panel.

  • The same day news of the breach became widespread, Clever's Jeff Carlson and SETDA's Julia Fallon published a piece arguing that K-12 needs deeper state-vendor collaboration, with shared accountability for incident response, risk management, public communication, and implementation. "The transactional procurement model," they write, "cannot continue."

The accountability question is rolling beyond cybersecurity. Three California pieces this week converge on the same word in a different conversation. CalMatters' Dan Walters notes that per-pupil spending has climbed 57% under Gov. Newsom — about $10,000 per student — with no equivalent move on NAEP. Carolyn Jones, also in CalMatters, summarizes the new Getting Down to Facts report, which argues local control has left "big gaps in student performance and questions over who's accountable for what." EdSource's Number of the Week reframes the debate around "effort," noting California has moved from 41st to 20th in the share of GDP it devotes to schools — still trailing peers like Vermont, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.

And on a lighter note: the New York Times's Rylee Kirk on cursive clubs spreading through high schools and libraries, where students are teaching themselves a skill the Common Core dropped in 2010 — often, they say, because they want to sign professional documents without embarrassment. At least 23 states have brought cursive back to the curriculum.

Hope to see some of you tomorrow on the webinar!

–Thomas

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