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The Consortium for School Networking has launched the "Cyber-Security for the Digital District" initiative, designed to provide education technology leaders and policy-makers with strategies and tools to ensure the privacy of data and the safe operation of technology within their schools.
"President Bush has made it a priority to provide safe schools for our nation's children. In our digital world we must also secure our school networks to keep children safe, information secure, and protect our network education resources," says John P. Bailey, director of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education.
Here are some highlights of the initiative:

• A toolkit to assist educators in understanding the issues around network security, explain the problem to other stakeholders, assess their own situation, and begin to reduce their risk.


• On-going professional development with face-to-face "train the trainer" workshops.


• A Web tool to enable educators to self assess their understanding of cyber security issues and compare their district's situation with other responders.


• A Webcast on cyber-security for federal, state and local policy makers.

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