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Could Trump Budget Cuts Lead to More Cyberattacks Against Schools?

Posted on April 5, 2025April 4, 2025 by Dissent

Arianna Prothero and Lauraine Langreo report:

Schools stand to lose vital cybersecurity support from the federal government as the Trump administration takes dramatic steps to shrink its size, and the Education Department suspends a major cybersecurity support initiative.

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Education Week has confirmed that the U.S. Department of Education, at the behest of Homeland Security, has suspended, at least for the time being, its K-12 Cybersecurity Government Coordinating Council, which brought together representatives from federal agencies, state education departments, school districts, and education technology companies to provide guidance and coordinate responses to cyber threats and attacks. The move comes in response to an executive order signed in February dissolving an initiative that allowed these various groups to meet exempt from some public meeting laws to protect the sensitive information being shared.

And the future of another group, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, that serves as the central cybersecurity resource for state and local governments, is in limbo, as the nonprofit that helps runs it faces steep funding cuts from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Read more at Education Week.

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