Jacob Demmitt reports: A University [of Georgia] employee with access to sensitive student information was arrested and charged with one count of felony theft by extortion Monday evening, and police said they expect their investigation to lead them to more student victims. Dorin Dehelean, an Internet technology security analyst associate for Enterprise Information Technology Services,…
Category: Youth & Schools
Clash Over Student Privacy
Inside Higher Ed reports: The U.S. Education Department has fired the top federal official charged with protecting student privacy, in what the dismissed official says was a conflict with the agency’s political leaders over their zeal to encourage the collection of data about students’ academic performance. Paul Gammill was physically escorted out of the department’s…
VA: Tech notifies parents about student alcohol offenses
Tonia Moxley reports: Wait until I tell your mom and dad what you did this weekend. That’s the message Virginia Tech students younger than 21 were contemplating this week following notice of a new university policy. Bowing to parental requests, Tech officials decided to exercise a provision of the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy…
School Punished Kid for Video, Dad Says
Tish Kraft reports on Courthouse News: A dad says Roseville Joint Union High School District unfairly threw his son off the Granite Bay High School basketball team because the boy produced a parody video about hip-hop music and the youth drug culture and posted it on Youtube. The boy and his friends did the video…