Staff Reporter

Skylar Rispens

StateScoop & EdScoop

Skylar Rispens is a reporter for StateScoop and EdScoop. She previously worked as a reporter specializing in education coverage for daily and weekly newspapers across Montana, where she currently resides.

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New bill would extend FCC’s popular Affordable Connectivity Program

State

Juicy J, a Memphis native and founding member of the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, performs at the YouTube Theater on June 28, 2023 in Inglewood, California. (Harmony Gerber / Getty Images)

New Tennessee legislation would protect musicians from AI voice clones

State

Nebraska lawmakers’ AI-cloned voices inspire legislative action

State

New Kansas broadband certification seeks to prepare communities for grants

State

California ‘AI Accountability Act’ would watch state government, urge private regulations

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in Denver in January 2021. (Michael Ciaglo / Getty Images)

Colorado announces $113M in federal funds to address broadband needs, homelessness

State

Colorado slashes broadband expansion rates along roadways

State

NYPD cops — A protestor confronts New York Police Department officers outside Washington Square Park in New York April 12, 2021 during a protest after a suburban Minneapolis police officer fatally shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images)

NYPD scrutinized for not complying with surveillance tech disclosure law

City

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers a victory speech to supporters at Grand Arcade at the Pavilion on Nov. 3, 2021 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez / Getty Images)