Frank D. LoMonte has a commentary on Inside Higher Ed, “Why FERPA Is Unconstitutional.” In his commentary, he suggests that the Supreme Court’s ruling in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (the “Obamacare” ruling) could also be applied to FERPA (the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act). You can read his analysis and argument on…
Category: Youth & Schools
Judge won’t dismiss lawsuit accusing Minnesota school of demanding sixth-grader’s Facebook password
A lawsuit filed in March against Minnewaska Area Schools has survived a motion to dismiss. Bailey McGowan of the Student Press Law Center reports: Judge Michael Davis’ Thursday decision lets the student, identified in court documents as R.S., continue with her complaint arguing that the school violated her First Amendment right to free speech and…
Why is Georgia Secretly Giving Student Test Scores to Military Recruiters?
Azaden Shahshahani reports: In 2006, Marlyn, a mother who lives in Gwinnett County with her children, was surprised to hear that her son Kyle, a senior at Brookwood High School, had taken the ASVAB test. ASVAB or the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test is the military’s entrance exam, given to recruits to determine their…
Tracking School Children With RFID Tags? It’s All About the Benjamins
David Kravets has an article on Threat Level about tagging school kids. It doesn’t really report anything new that I haven’t covered on this blog before, but if you’re new to the issue, it can quickly bring you up to speed on an issue near and dear to my heart. We really need a study of…