Davey Alba reports on a contentious battle in Lockport, New York: LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Jim Shultz tried everything he could think of to stop facial recognition technology from entering the public schools in Lockport, a small city 20 miles east of Niagara Falls. He posted about the issue in a Facebook group called Lockportians. He…
Category: Youth & Schools
German court rules against school niqab ban
AFP reports: A court in Germany ruled Monday against an attempt by authorities in Hamburg to forbid a 16-year-old schoolgirl from wearing a niqab during lessons. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, has fuelled debate in Germany over whether schools should allow the niqab, a facial veil worn by Muslims which leaves only the wearer’s…
Secret Service Agents And U.S. Marshals Are Patrolling Our Schools
Joe Cadillic writes: The U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Marshals Service has been expanding into America’s school system at an alarming rate. The Secret Service is training school administrators and teachers to identify violent students in numerous states like Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Louisiana and Kansas. As the Secret Service report “Protecting America’s Schools” mentions, there is no profile that school administrators…
Something good happened in NYS for student data privacy
There’s something to shout about, as Sheila Kaplan’s updated Twitter profile suggests. Her profile now reads: I’ve officially reached my goal of restricting disclosure of student contact info, DOB, birthplace & other PII w/w out consent in NYS. NYS did it via CPO & regs The newest development is that the state has now adopted…