Maria Jacketti reports: Some very big eyes from Washington and Harrisburg have focused their attention on the Weatherly Area School District and its attempt to write its own student privacy policy. The district’s action was in response to May 13 “suggestions” from the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education on how to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Texas Seeks Temporary Block of Rules for Transgender Students
Alexa Ura reports: With the first day of school looming, Texas will go to court on Friday and begin pressing its argument that the Obama administration strayed outside the law by ordering public schools to accommodate transgender students. In a case expected to come down to the distinction between sex and gender identity, the state’s lawsuit against the federal government…
Australian universities tracking students through their mobiles to monitor movement and study habits
Hyacinth Mascarenhas reports: Australian university students are being tracked on campus via their mobile phones through their Wi-Fi usage. Referred to as “learner analytics”, universities say the tracking system, which collects the data using Wi-Fi routers as students make their way around campus, helps them improve student retention rates as well as the student experience….
ECOT claims state broke law in audit
Nathan Baca reports on a controversy noted yesterday on this blog. Online charter school Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, or ECOT, claims the audit methods used by the Ohio Department of Education is illegal. ECOT helps educate more than 15,000 students statewide using online only classrooms instead of the traditional brick and mortar schools. State regulators…