Bill Raden reports: A state audit gave Alliance College-Ready Public Schools a mixed review last week, following an 11-month examination of spending and privacy issues related to Alliance’s two-year battle against teachers organizing a union at the charter network’s 28 schools. Though Alliance has been cleared of suspicions that it might have used public tax…
Category: Youth & Schools
EFF Releases Spying on Students Ed Tech Report
Sophia Cope of EFF writes: EFF Survey Reveals Gaps in Protecting the Privacy of K-12 Students Using School-Issued Devices and Cloud Apps “They are collecting and storing data to be used against my child in the future, creating a profile before he can intellectually understand the consequences of his searches and digital behavior.” This was…
Rights Groups Block School Cellphone Search Bill
Nick Cahill reports: Hampered by widespread resistance from civil rights groups, backers of a bill that would allow California teachers and principals to search students’ cellphones pulled their proposal Wednesday. Brought by the Association of California School Administrators, Assembly Bill 165 seeks to exempt students from recently enacted digital privacy protections against warrantless cellphone and…
New job-recruiting database raises privacy questions
Catherine Leffert reports: A popular software startup that Syracuse University could soon use, designed to connect college students to jobs at companies, is raising concerns about its use of students’ private information, including grade-point averages. The startup, called Handshake, has been increasing in popularity after its founding three years ago. It has so far connected…