From the road-to-student-privacy-hell dept., WPXI reports that what was intended as an anti-bullying “kindness” program at West Allegheny Middle School went too far in asking the students personal questions. According to school officials, a variety of exercises were put together for students to get students to “become aware of others’ experiences and their role…
Category: Youth & Schools
Pro-voucher groups suing Ohio district over list of students
Bill Hormann reports: A school district is wrongly shielding names and addresses of students from an organization that promotes options to traditional public schools, according to a lawsuit before the Ohio Supreme Court attracting interest from several statewide education groups. Columbus-based School Choice Ohio says it has long obtained the information through public records requests…
FERPA Directory Information as Anchor Data
Bill Fitzgerald (@FunnyMonkey) writes: …. As described in this FERPA directory information model form, “Directory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a parent’s prior written consent.” The list of information included as part of directory information – or…
Sen. Franken Questions Google About Student Data Privacy
Dawn Chmeilewski writes: Sen. Al Franken has asked Google to explain what it does with the personal, private data of students who use its Google Apps for Education products and Chromebooks. Franken wrote Wednesday to express concern that Google may be collecting students’ personal data for non-educational purposes without parents’ knowledge or consent. “I believe Americans have…