Amy Alonzo reports: Lyon County School District will continue to release “directory information” about students to groups and agencies that request it unless parents specifically choose to opt out. After an hour of discussion with no resolution on how to address a guardian’s concern that his grandchildren’s information was being released to various groups, the…
Category: Youth & Schools
Girard threatened with legal action over student privacy issue
Carol Robidoux reports on an interesting FERPA privacy case out of Manchester, New Hampshire: A school board member who used social media and his public access TV show, “Girard at Large,” to expound on a student privacy issue that arose during a Nov. 13 school committee meeting has been threatened with legal action. A letter…
Former students file suit against Mount Ida College alleging negligence, privacy violations
Michelle Williams reports: Former students of Mount Ida College filed a class action lawsuit against the school Monday, six months after the college abruptly closed. The lawsuit names as plaintiffs the college, the board of trustees and five representatives of the college and board. “The fallout was catastrophic,” the lawsuit states of the college’s decision to…
Student Data Security Is at Risk. We Need to Update FERPA.
Henry Kronk writes: Earlier in November, about 100 students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn walked out of school. They were protesting the school’s adoption of Summit Learning and the Summit Platform. Having grown frustrated with long hours of screen time every day and a system that didn’t suite them well, put their…