Amanda Holpuch and Remy Tumin report: Florida’s governing body for high school sports voted on Thursday to remove all questions about menstruation from medical forms required for student athletes, after an uproar that reflected anxieties about digital and reproductive privacy. Officials said that the form had been used for about 20 years, but the optional menstruation…
Category: Youth & Schools
Florida athletes may soon be required to submit their menstrual history to schools
Sommer Brugal and Andre Fernandez report: A proposed draft of a physical education form in Florida could require all high school student athletes to disclose information regarding their menstrual history — a move that’s already drawing pushback from opponents who say the measure would harm students. The draft — published last month by the Florida…
Judge Orders Washington State Private Special Education School to Turn Over Records
Lulu Ramadan reports: This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. A King County judge ruled last week that a private special education school that has been the subject of a recent Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation has to comply with public information laws and release records to…
UK: Students ‘outed without even knowing’ after SU self-id data ‘breach’
Caredig ap Tomos reports: Sensitive data relating to students’ self-identification continued to be shared with students running elections on Cambridge Students’ Union’s voting platform months after the issue was originally raised. Sources have told Varsity that countless students were “effectively outed without even knowing it” because of the ‘breach’ of sensitive data, which took nine months to…