Teaching students how to become spammers or disregard privacy? Seriously? Grace Yu reports on The Macau Daily Times: A civil group petitioned yesterday to the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ) for sponsoring an IT course that teaches how to collect personal data and make commercial uses of it, including SMS advertisements, or electronic spam,…
Category: Youth & Schools
FL: Pasco teacher fights for job amid Facebook snooping allegations
Jeffrey S. Solochek reports: Angelica Cruik-shank was on the defensive. The suspended Land O’Lakes High School Spanish teacher sat alone at a table Wednesday, facing tough questions from a school district lawyer about actions six months earlier that had put Cruikshank’s job on the line. For nearly seven hours, witnesses — even her own witnesses…
Mother worries survey violates privacy of DaVinci students
Scott Schwebke has a news story out of Utah that highlights why parents need to know their children’s privacy rights under FERPA and applicable state laws: The mother of a student at DaVinci Academy of Science and the Arts contends a research study conducted at the charter school by a Weber State University professor violated…
Do your child’s FERPA rights depend on what state you live in? It seems like it…
I really think that SCOTUS is going to need to hear at least one FERPA case and rule on whether the federal law protecting the privacy of education records trumps states’ open records laws if the state accepts federal education dollars. In Oklahoma, we saw the state’s education department deciding that they could accept federal…