Corinne Lestch and Ben Chapman report: In an unprecedented move, education officials will hand over personal student data to a new private company to create a national database for businesses that contract with public schools. Working with the city, state education officials are already uploading private information about students — their names, addresses, test scores,…
Category: Youth & Schools
Lawsuit charges Ed Department with violating student privacy rights
Valerie Strauss writes about EPIC’s lawsuit against the U.S. Education Department over changes to FERPA: The U.S. Education Department is being sued by a nonprofit organization for promoting regulations that are alleged to undercut student privacy and parental consent. The rules allow third parties, including private companies and foundations promoting school reform, to get access…
OU denied requests for parking ticket records, but are they protected by privacy laws?
I suppose I should no longer be shocked when I read a news story about a controversy involving FERPA (the federal privacy law protecting students’ education records) in Oklahoma. After all, this was the state where sensitive and personal student information was made public if students appealed a state mandate. But now we have the…
Student Privacy Should Not Be for Sale
Cameron Evans of Microsoft writes: How would you react if you learned that an outside agency came to your child’s school and, without your knowledge or consent, collected confidential data about your child and then used the data they gathered to make money for themselves? Would you be upset? As a parent, I believe the…