I read almost all the way through this article by Adam Vrankulj before I realized they were talking about the U.K. and not the U.S. The concerns are the same, of course. The following is in reference to the U.K., and I’m not sure what the comparable statistic is for the U.S.: According to the Department…
Category: Youth & Schools
N.D. autism bill raises concerns over privacy, funds
Keith Norman reports: A bill under consideration in the North Dakota Legislature is prompting concern among some parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders. The bill, Senate Bill 2193, creates a database of information about autistic people and establishes the position of a state autism coordinator. “I have minor concerns about it all but what…
Court reinstates student’s lawsuit against school district for unreasonable cellphone search
Back in October 2009, I blogged about a lawsuit alleging Owensboro Public Schools in Kentucky violated a student’s constitutional rights and its own district policies in conducting a warrantless cellphone search and then expelling the student. Somewhere between then and now, I missed the court opinion’s in the case, but apparently, they had granted the…
On the question of student privacy
Valerie Strauss writes that Steve Winnick, senior counsel at EducationCounsel LLC and former former deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Education, thinks many of us are misunderstanding FERPA in our concerns about the new $100M database funded by the Gates Foundation. He writes: Since the launch of non-profit inBloom earlier this month, there has…