From Inside HigherEd: The U.S. Justice Department and nine college associations have filed briefs backing the University of Illinois in its attempt to overturn a judge’s ruling that documents requested by The Chicago Tribune are not covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The Tribune requested the documents — which deal with applicants’ grades, test scores and parents…
Category: Youth & Schools
U. of I. disclosure appeal gets under way in federal court
Antonio Olivo reports: The University of Illinois on Wednesday filed its opening brief in an appeal to a federal court ruling that a privacy law governing financial aid does not bar the school from releasing information about hundreds of well-connected college applicants. In an ongoing legal dispute that stems from the Tribune’s 2009 “Clout Goes…
MB: Schools ban posting of student photos online
Nick Martin reports: Manitoba’s largest school division is trying to put the social-media genie back in the bottle just in time for graduation. The Winnipeg School Division has adopted stringent privacy policies -increasing up its already rigid standards -in an effort to keep photo and video of its students off the Internet. Anyone recording a…
MT: ACLU questions use of drug dogs at Glasgow High
Kristen Cates reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana is looking into the possibility that school authorities in Glasgow violated students’ privacy rights this spring during searches of vehicles. The ACLU received information that at least 15 students’ cars at Glasgow High School were searched after being sniffed by a drug-detecting dog, and two…