Today’s reminder to read what your kids bring home for school or to find out what they are being asked to reveal. Seen on yourNEWS: At a prestigious private school in Baltimore County, Maryland, surveys asking young students about their gender identity and sexual experiences have led to significant parental backlash. Parents at the elite…
Category: Youth & Schools
Concerns raised over universities signing over students’ private FERPA data to voter data companies
James Samuel reports: A relatively new report outlines how universities nationwide have signed over students’ private FERPA data to a third-party vendor that reviews their personal information to help study college students’ voting trends. The nine-page report describes how a national voting study run out of Tufts’ Institute for Democracy in Higher Education gets university administrators from…
Fresno High tracks student bathroom visits with app. Not everyone likes it
Leqi Shong reports: Oliver Buchanan, a 10th grader at Fresno High, is using his first bathroom privilege for the day. He inputs his student ID number into an app and if the system detects fewer than 25 students campus-wide are on bathroom trips, the screen turns green and the countdown begins. He now has seven…
K12 SIX Applauds Launch of K-12 Education Cybersecurity Council
On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education—in coordination with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—held the kickoff meeting of the Education Facilities Subsector Government Coordinating Council (GCC), designed to facilitate formal, ongoing collaboration between all levels of government and the education sector on issues of K-12 cybersecurity risk management. Organized in response…