Just when you might have thought that the fight between District 211 in Palatine, Illinois and the Office of Civil Rights over unrestricted use of a girl’s locker room by a transgender student was over, it appears it may not be. Eric Peterson reports: Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 officials have scheduled a special school board meeting…
Category: Youth & Schools
An Illinois School’s Odd Plan To Quit Sex Discrimination While Pretending Not To
Zack Ford reports that an agreement has been reached between District 211 and OCR about a transgender student using the girls’ locker room, but the district’s statement about the settlement does not really match the actual agreement: Illinois’ largest school district, District 211 in the Chicago suburb of Palatine, has agreed to accommodate a transgender…
Your Child Gets a Free Computer; What Does Google Get? Parents and Activists Worry
Seung Lee reports: In September, Jenny M., a mother of two middle schoolers in northeastern Ohio, emailed her school district to opt her kids out of a new computer-assisted learning program in class using Google Chromebooks. An adherent of “old-school education” like writing in cursive and worried that Google may start collecting data on her children,…
The facts about student data privacy in Google Apps for Education and Chromebooks
I admit I am somewhat jealous that EFF already got a response from Google to their FTC complaint, mentioned previously on this blog. Google posted the following on their blog today: Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Posted by Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Google Apps for Education Our goal is to ensure teachers and students everywhere have…