A student privacy bill, mentioned previously on this blog, had gotten hung up in the Louisiana legislature last month. Ashley Bateman has an update: A bill is making its way through the Louisiana legislature would revamp how schools and the state collect student data. Passed by the House and awaiting a vote in the Senate…
Category: Youth & Schools
State Lawmakers Ramp Up Attention to Student Data Privacy
Andrew Ujifusa of McClatchy News confirms my impression that 2014 will be remembered as the year state legislatures started to address student data privacy: As the appetite for educational data on students has grown across the K-12 sector, so has the stated desire among many state lawmakers to try to protect the privacy and security…
Ed. Industry Groups Outline Steps to Protect Privacy of Student Data
Michele Molnar reports: The education industry and K-12 schools are struggling to plot their way out of what has quickly become an emotionally charged and polarized atmosphere around issues of student-data privacy. Several groups are working to establish more clarity and guidance with new policies and practices, digital badges and privacy ratings, checklists, decisionmaking flow…
Ill Conceived California Privacy Bill Threatens Viability Of Commercial Educational Online Services
Alan Friel of BakerHostetler writes: SB 1177, the Student Online Privacy Protection Act was recently introduced in the California legislature. This is a bad bill for the private educational industry, and ultimately for parents and students. It would drastically expand the privacy protections of the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and state equivalents, which impose…