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Category: Youth & Schools
Denmark makes daycare compulsory in disadvantaged areas
What some might find authoritarian and violative of parental rights, others in other countries might wish for. Can you imagine parents in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the U.S. complaining about having daycare? But then as you read more, you can see where some might view a law requiring a child to be in mandatory daycare as…
App Lets School Nurses, Parents View Student Health Data
WNEP reports: It’s that time of year when nurses’ offices in schools across the country are full of children feeling ill. At Saint Clair Area Elementary School, the school is participating in a program aimed towards keeping its students healthy during flu season with some help from technology. […] FLUency is a health program by…
UK: Former headteacher prosecuted for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal information
A former headteacher has been fined in court for unlawfully obtaining school children’s personal data from previous schools where he worked. Darren Harrison of Twickenham, obtained the information from two primary schools were he had worked, and uploaded it to his then current school’s server. As he had no lawful reason to process the personal…