Alec Hamilton reports: A data-sharing agreement inked between the state Department of Education and a private nonprofit last week may led to confidential student information being used for commercial purposes, parents activists claim. Critics said on Sunday they had privacy concerns about information sent to the student database known as the Shared Learning Collective —…
Category: Youth & Schools
Student campaign set on exposing secrecy flaws
Jill Riepenhoff reports: To shed light on public records being held secret by many U.S. colleges, the Student Press Law Center is urging students everywhere to flood their schools with requests to see their own education records. The goal of the campaign is to show what the center’s director says is hypocrisy by colleges in…
A sandwich away from a privacy violation
John Fontana reports: In Carroll County, Md., school students as young as five years old are using their palm prints to pay for lunch. In the name of efficiency, a student’s print identifies them and records a charge for their meal. Some parents aren’t happy, and are joining a growing debate over the privacy implications…
Ohio Auditor: State Needs Access To Student IDs
Associated Press reports: Auditor Dave Yost told state education leaders Monday that an Ohio law blocking the state from accessing students’ personal information is hampering district tracking efforts and wasting money. Under a state law aimed at protecting children’s privacy, the Ohio Department of Education must keep track of nearly 1.9 million public school students…