New in Lightspeed: Board-Ready Insights from the Leadership Dashboard
The Leadership Dashboard organizes district data into clear executive-level views tied directly to leadership priorities. Each report includes anonymized comparisons to similarly sized K-12 districts nationwide, giving leaders meaningful context alongside their own trends.
Ohio HB 96: What K–12 Districts Need to Know About Cybersecurity, AI Policy, and School Safety Funding
Ohio House Bill 96, signed into law on June 30, 2025, establishes the state’s FY 2026–2027 operating budget. While primarily a budget bill, HB 96 includes new statutory requirements that directly impact public K–12 school districts.
Why Real-Time Filtering Isn’t Enough: How Lightspeed Blocks the Latest Bypass Attempt
There’s a filter bypass attempt making the rounds on TikTok where students search an inappropriate URL in Gemini, click a link in the Gemini search results, and bypass some filters. The bottom line: Lightspeed Filter™ immediately blocks this bypass attempt.
2026 Lightspeed Product Roadmap (Part 1): Greater Visibility, Smarter Control, and Unified Leadership Insights
In Part 1 of our recent Product Roadmap webinar, we spent time walking through what we’ve launched, what’s coming next, and how it all fits together across Lightspeed Filter™, Lightspeed Signal™, and Lightspeed Insight™. We’re focused on bringing visibility, control, and reporting together in a way that actually makes sense for district leaders.
AI in Education: Why Visibility Matters More Than Blocking
If there’s one topic dominating education conversations right now, it’s AI. From keynote stages at BETT to safeguarding roundtables across Europe, the same question keeps coming up: how do we balance innovation and student safety with AI visibility and control? One thing is clear: students are already using AI.
Beyond ‘Pen and Paper’: What Sweden’s Schools Reveal About Smarter Digital Learning
As concerns grow around distraction and online risk, Sweden’s approach highlights the importance of intentional technology use, balanced learning environments and proactive digital safeguarding that protects students while enabling effective education.
Safer Internet Day 2026: Awareness Isn’t Enough
Safer Internet Day highlights the need for effective filtering and monitoring in schools for safer digital learning environments. Director of Safeguarding and Digital Transformation, Tania Mackie, leads a conversation about it in our latest blog.
Cybersecurity in K–12: Why Content Filtering Alone Is No Longer Enough
This challenge is not new. For years, schools have been working to manage security risks that were once thought to belong primarily to the corporate world. What has changed is the pace and scale.
Filtering Today in 2026: Navigating AI, Proxies, and Emerging Technologies
In our recent webinar, Filtering Today: Navigating AI, Proxies, and Emerging Technologies, Colin McCabe and I talked about what we’re seeing in the field, what customers are struggling with, and how filtering has to evolve to keep pace.
Indiana SB 159: What K–12 Districts Need to Know About Parent-Controlled Filtering and Tech Policy Updates
Senate Bill 159 isn’t just a filtering update. Two compliance deadlines are now on the horizon, and districts need the right policies and tools in place to meet them. Lightspeed’s platform directly aligns to SB 159’s two core mandates and provides additional value for schools trying to balance safety, connectivity, and digital wellness.
