A former Moon Area School District student and his parents claim in a lawsuit moved to federal court on Wednesday that the township’s police violated his constitutional rights by seizing his personal journals and videos from his home and then showing them to school officials and other third parties. Colin Schreiber, 20, and his parents…
Category: Youth & Schools
ACLU Warns State that Student Privacy is Being Compromised by Sharing of Military Aptitude Test Results
From the ACLU: The personally-identifying information of tens of thousands of Florida high school students has been distributed by Florida schools to recruiters for the U.S. Military without the express permission of the students or their parents. In a letter sent today to Florida Education Commissioner Pam Stewart, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of…
Tennessee State University Requires Students to Wear Trackable IDs
Alec Torres reports: Beginning Saturday, March 1, students and staff at Tennessee State University will be required to present identification badges at any time that can also track their movements in and out of buildings, according to a local-news report. After a spate of break-ins and vandalism, officials at the university instituted the new ID requirement as a…
InBloom testifies on student data security for portal
Ashley Hupfl reports: The company tapped to create the controversial student-data portal in New York testified Friday that the information would be secure, addressing concerns raised by teachers, parents and lawmakers. InBloom Inc., based in Atlanta, is the nonprofit third-party vendor hired by the state Department of Education to create the EngageNY portal. The portal…