Megan Rhyne is executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. She has a commentary in the Virginia Mercury that begins: Last week a Rockingham County Circuit Judge ruled in favor of James…
Category: Youth & Schools
It’ll be October before even half of Vermont’s school districts begin surveillance testing
Lola Duffort reports: Surveillance testing has been touted by Vermont officials as a cornerstone of its Covid-19 mitigation efforts in K-12 schools. But only a little more than one-third of Vermont’s public school districts and a quarter of its private schools will have actually begun testing by the end of September, according to figures provided…
NC: Charters call health director’s actions ‘inappropriate’ after requesting student records amid Covid outbreak
Johanna F. Still reports: After deputies served “control measure orders” at two charter schools in Brunswick County, the schools’ leadership penned a letter to the board of commissioners this week to alert them of “inappropriate and precipitous” actions taken by the county health director. Last month county health director Cris Harrelson authorized two health orders…
UK: Mum-of-three wins legal data breach fight against Hampshire County Council after school in Havant gives ex-partner her address
David George reports: The mum-of-three, who wishes to be anonymous, was relocated from a refuge to Leigh Park in 2016, and enrolled her children at a nearby school. But after the school disclosed to her ex-partner that the children were there, he entered the premises and then obtained the 49-year-old’s address from inside, a court…