Dave Goins reports: Concerns about national Common Core Standards for K-12 public schools were expressed during the development of a student data privacy bill that cruised unanimously through the Idaho Senate Tuesday, Sen. John Goedde said. […] SB1372 contains an emergency clause – meaning that if it clears the Legislature, it would become law immediately…
Category: Youth & Schools
FL: Keeping I.D. Safe Act Passes In House Committee
Space Coast Daily reports: The House Regulatory Affairs Committee today unanimously passed the Keeping I.D. Safe (K.I.D.S.) Act, a priority of Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam to keep Florida’s children safe from identity theft. More than 50,000 children in Florida become victims of identity theft every year and more than $100,000 million is stolen every…
PA: Former student claims Moon police violated his privacy
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…
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…