John P. Martin reports: The Lower Merion School District on Monday adopted a new set of policies to govern the use and tracking of student laptops and other technology, its latest step to get past the furor of webcam monitoring. The measures, passed unanimously by the school board at its monthly meeting, spell out in…
Category: Youth & Schools
Il: Justice Ministry: Cameras violate privacy
Yaakov Lappin reports: Police plans to set up a pilot scheme involving the installation of CCTV cameras in 12 schools this year came under fire from the Ministry of Justice’s Public Defense unit on Sunday. Under the pilot scheme, police will link up cameras overlooking school buildings and playgrounds to regional police commands and municipal…
Maine Schools Asking for Students’ Social Security Numbers
Reported by MyFOXMaine.com: With the start of school just weeks away, many parents are on edge about a new state law asking schools to collect students’ Social Security numbers. The state plans to use the data to measure the efficiency of the current curriculum by tracking students’ progress from elementary school to their first place…
CT: Student strip-search suit settled with payout; 4 receive $27,500 each for incident at Ansonia alternative education site
Lauren Garrison reports: A lawsuit filed by four former students in the alternative education program who claimed they were strip searched by teachers looking for missing money has been settled, according to the students’ attorney. Attorney Robert Berke of Bridgeport said Wednesday that each of the students, who have all either graduated or left the…