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Cost shouldn't decide
who a district can protect.

The same statutes bind every district. The budgets to answer them do not. The Foundation funds independent audits, DPA reviews, penetration tests and remediation coaching for districts that can't reach the full cost on their own.

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The gap

The obligation is federal. The budget is local.

A district of two thousand students and a district of two hundred thousand answer to the same statutes, sign the same kinds of vendor agreements, hold the same kinds of records. What differs is whether there is money in the budget to check any of it.

82%
K-12 schools hit by a cyber incident
July 2023 – December 2024
$556K
Average ransom demand per incident
Education sector, H1 2025
+23%
Year-over-year rise in education ransomware
First half of 2025
60M+
Student records exposed in one vendor breach
PowerSchool incident
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Who this is for

Every district signs the same kinds of vendor agreements. What differs is whether there's money in the budget to check them.

What a grant funds

The same work a well-funded district buys, from the same people, at the same standard.

01

DPA review

Vendor agreements read against the statutes that actually bind the district — FERPA, COPPA and whatever the state passed last session.

02

EdTech audit

What's running, who authorized it, and what it can reach. The number of tools on record and the number reachable through single sign-on are rarely the same number.

03

Penetration test

Performed in partnership with our CREST certified audit partner, translated for districts.

04

Remediation coaching

Someone alongside the district's team while the fixes land. A report that closes out a finding is not the same as a district that closed it.

A row of young students seated on the classroom floor, in profile, listening intently.
The stakes

The obligations don't shrink with the enrollment. FERPA and COPPA bind a district of two thousand the same as one of two hundred thousand.

Students at a maker table with a laptop showing code, robot parts and wires spread across the workspace.
The surface

One district's own records listed about sixty EdTech tools. Just under five hundred were reachable through single sign-on.

An independent board approves every grant. How the board is structured →
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Fund a district

One commitment carries a district all the way through.

Every dollar goes to the independent firms doing the work.

See exactly what your gift protects, and how a grant reaches the district that needs it. Start the conversation, and we'll walk you through where the money lands — and what changes for students when it does.