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7 School Web Content Filter Features That Save IT Directors Time

As a school district IT professional, you have a web content filter deployed to be in compliance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).

District Best Practices for Managing App Approvals and Creating an Approved App List

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing the teaching and learning experience.

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Digital Equity as a Precursor to Successful Learning Outcomes

Access to education fundamentally changes life outcomes.

Generative AI’s Potential to Inflate the Digital Divide

While not new, generative AI (artificial intelligence) has rapidly ascended to the top of the K-12 education scene this year, creating fervor amongst a community with much to resolve…

What Texas School Districts Need to Know About the SCOPE Act (Texas House Bill No. 18)

On June 13, 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill No. 18, the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, also known as the SCOPE Act.

Internet Connectivity & Its Impact on Closing the Digital Divide

An important issue in today’s digital learning-fueled K-12 educational environment is the concept of digital equity and closing the digital divide.

Protecting Student Data Privacy as a Guiding EdTech Principle

Within K-12 education, there is no greater priority than student welfare. Student welfare is the mission that brought so many of us to the space. Everything else pales in comparison.

From High to Low: Use Lightspeed Alert’s New Monitoring Preferences Feature to Choose Alert Levels

Lightspeed Alert™ scans vast amounts of information and flags potentially concerning text or images, creating alerts that district and school staff then follow up on in the real world.

8 Tips to Make Web Content Filtering More Effective at Your School

Lightspeed Systems has been a leader in the web content filtering category for over twenty years, and when you have been in a space for that long, you uncover a