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    <title>New in Domain Trust Monitor: Lookalike Watch</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Product update</category>
    <description>Lookalike Watch finds domains registered to resemble a district's own, the starting point for most business email compromise. Now in Domain Trust Monitor.</description>
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    <title>Protect E-Rate: comments to the FCC are due October 13</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Federal advocacy</category>
    <description>The FCC's proposed E-Rate changes put $672 million in Pennsylvania school and library connectivity at stake. Here's how districts can be heard before October 13, 2026.</description>
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    <title>At the FCC, PA Digital Trust Hub makes the case for E-Rate</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>AIU joined a national coalition of education and library leaders at the FCC to brief Commissioner Olivia Trusty on the E-Rate review. Read the remarks of Richard Platts, CETL.</description>
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    <title>PA Digital Trust Hub partners with AASA and AESA to launch a nationwide E-Rate site and FCC comment builder</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Built by AIU with AASA and AESA, erate.aasa.org maps E-Rate funding for every state and county and helps educators write their own evidence-based FCC comments.</description>
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    <title>PA Digital Trust Hub partners with PASBO, PASA, PAECT, PAIU and PAIMS to protect E-Rate</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description>Pennsylvania's statewide education associations joined the PA Digital Trust Hub behind a data-driven E-Rate advocacy site covering all 29 intermediate units and every public school district.</description>
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    <title>AIU receives 1EdTech Community Excellence Award for the Digital Trust Hub</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Recognition</category>
    <description>AIU received the 1EdTech Community Excellence Award for establishing and expanding the Pennsylvania Digital Trust Hub.</description>
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    <title>Domain Trust Monitor launches for Digital Trust Hub members</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Member benefit</category>
    <description>Allegheny Intermediate Unit developed Domain Trust Monitor, a free tool that helps member districts protect the domains they use for email and the web.</description>
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    <title>PA Digital Trust Hub joins the Pennsylvania Student Data Privacy Consortium</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Data privacy</category>
    <description>Through IU13, the Digital Trust Hub joined the PA Student Data Privacy Consortium, part of A4L's national SDPC, giving members standard data privacy agreements at consortium pricing.</description>
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    <title>White House National Cyber Director meets Pennsylvania school leaders at AIU</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Federal partnership</category>
    <description>White House National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. met with Pennsylvania school leaders at AIU to discuss K-12 cybersecurity and the Digital Trust Hub.</description>
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    <title>Allegheny County schools join the 1EdTech community through a new AIU partnership</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category>Partnership</category>
    <description>Through a new partnership with 1EdTech, 46 Allegheny Connect members gain the TrustEd Apps Management Suite (TAMS) to vet edtech for privacy, security, accessibility and interoperability.</description>
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