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…
Category: Youth & Schools
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…
YC-Funded Whereoscope Gives Parents An Easy Way To Track Where Their Kids Are
For those who thinking tracking their kids is a good idea or who just want to learn more about what’s out there, Jason Kincaid has an article on TechCrunch, “YC-Funded Whereoscope Gives Parents An Easy Way To Track Where Their Kids Are.”
UK: MSP accused over letters to pupils
At first blush, this report from the UKPA in the Kilmarnock Standard sounded like data protection possibly run amok: A Government minister has called on Labour’s Karen Whitefield to resign from Holyrood’s Education Committee after accusing her of breaching data protection rules by writing to schoolchildren. The MSP sent letters of congratulations to primary seven…