{"id":247209,"date":"2026-05-15T19:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:15:15","slug":"indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/15\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Expands High School Cybersecurity Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/k-12\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education\">Indiana Expands High School Cybersecurity Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/k-12\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/k-12\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-15 19:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                    The uptick in cyber attacks on K-12 schools and higher education in recent years \u2014 like those on Instructure and PowerSchool, which alarmed education leaders in both their nature and scale \u2014 has forced public agencies to reckon with whether their digital security measures would be able to defend against bad actors.<\/p>\n<p>The Indiana Department of Education this week announced a new initiative, facilitated through a partnership with several organizations including the College Board and the nonprofit Project Lead the Way (PLTW), to broaden access to high school cybersecurity classes. Currently, about 562 students across 69 public high schools in Indiana have access to cybersecurity courses, the news release said. Over the next three years, the state initiative aims to expand the AP Cybersecurity course and PLTW&#8217;s cybersecurity curriculum to reach 200 high schools and approximately 4,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana has more than 20,000 open cybersecurity roles statewide, according to the state&#8217;s Cybersecurity Hub. The new initiative aims to create a direct pipeline from high schools to college, high-demand careers and the Indiana National Guard.<\/p>\n<p><span data-bsp-pv=\"4f8e492c-6f2f-390e-bc61-f176d3a37ab9\"\/><span data-bsp-pv=\"0000019e-2d7e-db9b-a5de-adff86ad0000\"\/><br \/>\u201cCentral to our mission in K-12 is helping our students to find their unique purpose, to thrive in life and in their career, and to tackle the greatest challenges of our time. By urgently expanding cybersecurity pathways, we can create stronger, more prepared citizens and better protect our state and homeland,\u201d Dr. Katie Jenner, Indiana\u2019s secretary of education, said in a public statement.<\/p>\n<p>In its own news release, PLTW said its curriculum gives students projects and role-playing experiences as cybersecurity experts to learn specific tasks like identifying suspicious data, defending personal data on devices and social media accounts, and securing firewalls and e-commerce sites. PLTW&#8217;s classes will incorporate industry standards from the Advanced Placement (AP)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/k-12\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Expands High School Cybersecurity Education https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/education\/k-12\/indiana-expands-high-school-cybersecurity-education Publish Date: 2026-05-15 19:43:00 Source Domain: www.govtech.com The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/a25d777\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7168x3484+0+296\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F86%2Fad%2Fe56104484246a90a917a313e8cdc%2Fcybersecurity-education.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-247209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247212,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247209\/revisions\/247212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}