Mark Morales reports: Authorities in Suffolk County have unveiled a new initiative aimed at getting eyes inside a school in case a situation becomes dangerous. The measure — known as SHARE, Sharing to Help Access Remote Entry — will give school districts the ability to connect their existing closed-circuit television inside the school directly to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Portland State University Researchers May Have Violated FERPA by Using the Personal Data of Thousands of Portland-Area K-12 Students
Katie Shepherd reports: Plenty of graduate students dislike the research assignments handed to them by professors. Ezra Whitman, a graduate student in the 2017 class at Portland State University, had a different problem with the homework he was given. He said it broke the law. “I didn’t want to do it, period,” says Whitman. “It…
Amazon Releases New Guidance on AWS and FERPA
Dian Schaffhauser reports: More than two years after issuing guidance on FERPA compliance and Amazon Web Services, Amazon has updated the whitepaper to lay out the company’s “shared responsibility model” and provide specific guidance on 24 different AWS services. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, in general, calls for schools and agencies to “reasonably…
UK mother advocates to protect children’s education data privacy
Stephen Wynn-Davies reports: A mother of three said she was prepared to take the Government to court over its decision to include ‘highly sensitive’ data on the National Pupil Database. Jen Persson, from Pulborough, was ‘shocked’ when – last September – the Department for Education passed a law to collect more data on children who…