Category: Youth & Schools

Carol Rose and Jessie Rossman report: It is that time of year again! Those of us with school-aged children have kitchen tables piled high with forms and permission slips. Schools request all sorts of information at the beginning of each year: medical histories, dental insurance, emergency contacts, allergies and more. They require parent signatures to…

A timely reminder From EPIC: Education New York, a leading student privacy rights organization, is urging students and parents to opt-out of the use of educational records for marketing purposes. The data typically includes name, address, telephone number, birth date, and other personal information in student records. Education New York’s founder Sheila Kaplan stated, “I’m thrilled that with greater awareness…

Dominic Lynch writes: A back-to-school interactive project at Loyola University Chicago asking students to weigh in on what they are most worried about today found students are far more concerned with liberal issues such as climate change and misogyny than they are with more traditional matters, such as liberty and privacy. Loyola’s student government had…

Kim Archer reports that the same state education department that upset the hell out of privacy advocates by publicly posting students’ personal details if they applied for a waiver of state tests still doesn’t grasp their obligations to rigorously protect student privacy: Some area school officials say the Oklahoma State Department of Education has violated…