Erin Kayata reports on what some parents in New Canaan accomplished after they started looking into where their children’s data goes. Together the women, along with other mothers from Fairfield County, began advocating for student data privacy. Now on October 1 of this year, two years after they began championing for this, Public Act 16-189…
Category: Youth & Schools
Supreme Court blocks transgender victory on bathrooms
Richard Wolf reports: The supreme court on Wednesday blocked a court order giving a transgender student access to the boys’ bathroom at his Virginia high school, in what is the high court’s first ruling on an increasingly contentious topic. The ruling permits the Gloucester county school board to continue barring Gavin Grimm, a trans boy,…
Ca: Edmonton school breached transgender student’s privacy, arbitrator says
Janet French reports: An Edmonton public school breached a transgender girl’s privacy when teachers called out her male birth name during attendance at least six times, Alberta’s privacy commissioner’s office has ruled. “I think it’s a landmark ruling because it clearly outlines that transgender students’ identity must be protected in all Alberta schools,” said University…
Code.org Has Removed 10M Student Email Addresses and Won’t Collect Any More
EdSurge reports: Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science education, has announced via press releasethat it has removed 10 million student email addresses from its servers and written a new privacy policy. Under the new policy, students using Code.org will log in using their email addresses, but the addresses will not be sent to Code.org’s…