Idaho’s state Board of Education adopted a new policy today requiring that the privacy of student data be carefully protected, as the state ramps up its Statewide Longitudinal Data System, which has been years in the works to help better track student progress. Here’s the board’s new policy: “The privacy of all student level data that…
Category: Youth & Schools
Montana law makes it harder to share information on student threats
Sometimes it’s not FERPA, but state laws, that prohibit information sharing on students. Gail Schontzler reports: Since the 2007 Virginia Tech campus massacre that killed 32 people, the federal government has urged university officials to share information about potentially dangerous students, despite confidentiality laws. But in Montana, strict state laws protecting a student’s private records…
Miss. law requires cord blood from some teen moms
Let’s just call this the privacy outrage of the week: If a girl younger than 16 gives birth and won’t name the father, a new Mississippi law – likely the first of its kind in the country – says authorities must collect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove paternity as a step…
Former student speaks out about university lawsuit
Jessica Bruha reports on another lawsuit seeking records that a university says are protected by FERPA, the federal privacy law protecting education records: “The lawsuit is the last thing we wanted to do. If they said they would give us the records now, we would settle out of court. I’d drop the lawsuit.” Those were…