Blake Neff reports: Student activists at Harvard Law School (HLS) attempted to use the FBI to track a blog critical of them, while school administrators tried to find the identities of its authors, according to recently leaked emails. In recent months, activists have formed a group dubbed Royall Must Fall, which has campaigned for a…
Category: Youth & Schools
Orange County Public Schools renews contract to spy on students’ social media activities
I’ve previously noted (snarkily, of course) the use of SnapTrends software by Orange County Public Schools in Florida to monitor students’ social media activities. Well, it seems they’re pleased as punch with the results of their monitoring. So much so that they’re renewing the contract for the software. Details of the approximately one dozen police…
Court Overturns Virginia School’s Transgender Bathroom Rule
Larry O’Dell reports: A policy barring a transgender student from using the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school is discriminatory, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. In a case closely watched by public schools and transgender-rights activists across the country, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the Gloucester County School…
Student data protection bill passes Colorado House
James Anderson reports: Colorado lawmakers are moving to enact what is billed as one of nation’s toughest student privacy laws at a time when unscrupulous data collectors can identify youths by their keystrokes in typing class and sell their information. […] The House on Thursday unanimously backed a bill that defines at what point data…