Pennsylvania · Since 2024 · Allegheny Intermediate Unit

Digital trust,
built together.

Every login, app and inbox in a Pennsylvania school carries a promise to students and families. The Digital Trust Hub gives schools across the Commonwealth the shared tools, expertise and voice to keep it.

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Protect E-Rate.

The FCC has proposed changes that put Pennsylvania’s school and library connectivity at risk. Add your district’s voice before the comment window closes.

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FCC comments due October 13, 2026 · WC Docket 26-133
$672Min federal E-Rate funding committed to Pennsylvania schools and libraries, FY2016–2026, in all 67 counties and 29 intermediate unit regions.

Why it matters

Digital trust isn’t an IT issue. It’s a district issue.

It shapes instruction, operations and community confidence. Digital learning has moved fast, and the systems built to protect it haven’t kept pace. Schools are asked to do more, with more risk and fewer people.

Cybersecurity risk

Threat activity against schools keeps climbing, while most districts run lean IT teams with no dedicated security staff.

Student data privacy

Families expect every app a teacher adopts to handle their child’s data responsibly. Someone has to check.

Generative AI

AI features are arriving inside tools schools already use, often with new data terms and very little notice.

Thousands of apps

Districts evaluate applications by the hundreds and wade through vendor contracts that are long, complex and often unclear.

Data governance

Knowing who owns which data, who can see it and where it goes is now a core operating question.

Legislative compliance

State and federal expectations for privacy, accessibility and security keep changing. Districts need to see what’s next.

How it works

Strong digital learning is built by design.

Not isolated initiatives. Shared infrastructure. The Hub pools expertise, tools and contracts once, so every member district benefits.

Join

Choose the membership band that fits your enrollment. One annual fee covers your whole organization.

Connect

Get 1EdTech affiliate membership, including TAMS app vetting, plus the PA Student Data Privacy Consortium and a statewide network of peers.

Protect

Turn on shared services such as Domain Trust Monitor, Protective DNS and managed DNS at no added cost.

Lead

Shape the agenda at quarterly member meetings and add your district’s voice to statewide advocacy.

Collaborativeshared learning across districts Objectivevendor-neutral guidance Transparentclear, open communication Efficientrespects your time Grounded in trustsafe spaces to learn

Five pillars

One hub. Five ways we protect your district.

Every service the Hub offers maps to one of five pillars of service and collaboration.

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01

Data privacy

Protecting student and staff data through responsible, informed practices.

  • 1EdTech affiliate membership, including TAMS
  • App vetting resources
  • Privacy, security, accessibility and AI rubrics
02

Vendor assessments

Transparent, informed technology purchasing, backed by shared contracts.

  • PA Student Data Privacy Consortium, with IU13
  • Statewide data privacy agreements
03

Data governance

Moving from reactive compliance to intentional data strategy.

  • Data steward role guidance
  • Classification and handling templates
04

Cybersecurity operations

Stronger security without adding staff.

  • Domain Trust Monitor
  • Protective DNS support
  • Managed DNS
05

Policy advocacy

District voices in state and national conversations.

  • Legislative outreach
  • Quarterly cybersecurity briefs
  • MS-ISAC, CISA, PA National Guard and PDE engagement

A statewide network

From Lake Erie to the Delaware. One network.

What started in Allegheny County now has members across the Commonwealth: school districts, intermediate units, career and technical centers and nonpublic schools.

500Pennsylvania school districts
29intermediate units
1shared standard of trust. That’s the goal.

Member benefits

Everything your district would build alone. Already built.

One membership. Tools, contracts, services and a network, shared by schools across the Commonwealth.

Included with membership

Domain Trust Monitor

Watches every email domain your district owns: DMARC, SPF, DKIM and more, checked daily. Coaching takes you from unprotected to fully enforced, with alerts when something breaks.

About Domain Trust Monitor

1EdTech affiliate membership

Including the TrustEd Apps Management Suite (TAMS) for vetting apps, with a public dashboard families can see.

PA-SDPC membership

The PA Student Data Privacy Consortium, in partnership with IU13, for shared vendor privacy agreements.

Protective and managed DNS

Implementation support for Protective DNS, plus managed DNS services with automated health checks.

Coming soon

VettED

App vetting that helps your review team read vendor fine print and record every decision. VettED supports. You decide.

Become a beta tester

Email compliance support

Hands-on help with DMARC, SPF and DKIM, from the first record to full enforcement.

Quarterly member meetings

Peers who share your problems, and share what worked. Plus monthly resources aligned to each pillar, so no one reinvents the wheel.

A voice in state and federal policy

Plain-language updates on policy that affects schools, quarterly cybersecurity briefs for your staff, and a coordinated school voice in Harrisburg and Washington.

Coming soon · Beta testers wanted

Meet VettED.

Every app that wants into your classrooms arrives with pages of fine print. VettED, from the Digital Trust Hub, helps your reviewers read the fine print, points to the parts that matter, and keeps a clear record of every decision. It suggests. You decide.

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The vision

500 districts.
One standard
of trust.

Shared, not duplicated

Vet once. Benefit everywhere.

When one district reviews an app or negotiates a privacy agreement, every member gains. Pennsylvania’s schools should stop doing the same work 500 times.

Vendor-neutral

Guidance with no sales pitch.

The Hub is run by educators for educators. It gives objective advice and has nothing to sell but better outcomes for students.

One voice

From Harrisburg to Washington.

A statewide membership gives districts a coordinated, school-centered voice on privacy, cybersecurity and connectivity policy, in the Capitol and at the FCC.

In Pennsylvania

State advocacy

Clear updates on policy that affects schools, and a practical, school-centered voice in shaping it.

  • Legislative outreach to state leaders on student data privacy and cybersecurity
  • Engagement with PDE and the PA National Guard
  • Quarterly cybersecurity briefs for district staff
In Washington

Federal advocacy

National coalitions carry Pennsylvania’s data and district experience to federal decision makers.

  • E-Rate: data-driven advocacy on FCC WC Docket 26-133, in Pennsylvania and nationwide with AASA
  • Briefing FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty alongside AASA, CoSN, SHLB and SIIA
  • Partnership with MS-ISAC, CISA and the White House Office of the National Cyber Director

Student data privacy and cybersecurity aren’t separate from good education — together they are what make it possible.

Richard Platts, CETL, Chief Technology Officer, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
2026 · NATIONAL RECOGNITION

1EdTech Community Excellence Award

Honoring AIU for establishing and expanding the Pennsylvania Digital Trust Hub, and for connecting dozens of districts to the 1EdTech community.

2024 · NATIONAL CYBER DIRECTOR

National Cyber Director visit

Director Harry Coker Jr. met with school leaders at AIU to discuss K-12 cybersecurity and collaborative models like the Hub.

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Take the next step

You don’t have to navigate this alone.

Whether you’re figuring out where to start or strengthening what you already have, the Hub team is here. We follow up within one business day.

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