Ellen Meder reports: Schools inevitably amass a lot of information about their students: name, contact information, medical information and all the tidbits that make up an educational record. How and when that information can shared is tightly restricted on by the federal law Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). When personal information is shared…
Category: Youth & Schools
New Data-Mining ‘Opt-Out’ Form to Combat Common Core
Merrill Hope reports: Breitbart Texas has learned that a new “Student Privacy Protection Request Form” has been released by the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national non-profit public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The “data-mining” opt-out form was designed to protect students from Big Data’s chokehold on the classroom. It was crafted with the…
Calif. Student Social-Media Privacy Bill Passes Legislature – AB 1442
Christopher Simmons reports that Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s bill, AB 1442, passed its final legislative hurdle yesterday, clearing the Assembly floor by a vote of 76-0. AB 1442 would create reasonable standards of privacy when school districts collect and analyze (or contract with a third-party entity to collect and analyze) data that students post to social-media websites….
Ohio ordered to provide student data to nonprofit
Wow. Lisa Roberson reports: A district judge has ordered the Ohio Department of Education to release student data to a nonprofit organization that is fighting a decades-old class-action lawsuit in federal court. Parents may object to the release of their student’s information by Sept. 12. Columbus-based Disability Rights Ohio, which advocates for people with disabilities,…