![]() ![]() That contract has not been made public.Ĭarvalho said the contract will be discussed at the virtual School Board committee meetings on Wednesday. K12, the company that runs the My School Online platform, received a $15 million no-bid contract over the summer without board approval. “We’re going to hold the company accountable,” he said. Many teachers turned to Zoom or Microsoft Teams in the wake of the disruptions.Ĭarvalho said the district has “detected challenges and optimization needs” with the My School Online platform, but that the school district received assurances from the company that it will work optimally. For those special classes that use Microsoft Teams, 71,700 students logged in. She said the school district marked 218,000 students as successfully getting through the system and connecting at some point. He said district officials were in conversation with representatives from K12 Tuesday.Ĭhief Academic Officer Marie Izquierdo said 107,000 students and teachers were logged on between 8:30 a.m. The sixth grade through 12th grade portion was down for about an hour. Students made TikTok videos and teachers and parents circulated memes of “banana dog” - the scruffy pup adorning a banana print tee in the stock photo found on the ever-present K12 error page.Ĭarvalho said the kindergarten through fifth grade element of K-12 was down for 30 minutes. Teachers and students took to social media Tuesday to mock - or at least, make light of - the outages. Many pivoted to Zoom video chats and reported having no issues there. Some classes had a teacher with no students, others had students but no teacher. Many teachers and students received error messages throughout the day that said the system was down for “emergency maintenance.”Įven through backdoor links the district provided, teachers, students and parents were greeted with error messages. “We are continuing to monitor the situation and are working with the school district and law enforcement to ensure this doesn’t happen again.”Ĭarvalho was reluctant to address issues with K12. “Given this took place during the beginning of school, we understand how important connectivity is for virtual learning during this unprecedented time,” said Comcast’s vice president of public relations, Mindy Kramer. Miami-Dade Schools has approximately 275,000 students and nearly 20,000 teachers. She said 160,000 students and over 10,000 teachers were logged onto the K12 platform. schools, almost three times the level in 2018, according to an article in EdTech.Įarly Tuesday, a school district spokeswoman said the district’s Internet service via Comcast was “intermittently interrupted” Tuesday morning but was soon resolved. In 2019, there were 348 cyberattacks against U.S. Cyberattacks against schools have increased because they are viewed as easy targets. Carvalho compared the high-profile attack to the cyberattack that struck when Florida’s public schools debuted online standardized testing in 2015. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |