Clare Dignan reports: The parent of an elementary school student is concerned students’ privacy is being violated by the school district after she found photos of students from across the district on her child’s school-provided iPad. The district has since wiped the device, provided a new iPad to the student [Read More…]
Jules Polenetsky and Amelia Vance write: In 2014, the Louisiana legislature passed a law to protect student privacy. It required parents to approve nearly any collection and sharing of student data. In other words, no student information — no accomplishments or addresses, no batting averages or GPAs — was to [Read More…]
Briana Whitney reports: A Cottonwood high school is under fire by the ACLU after students say their privacy rights are being violated by the color of school ID they’re given. The policy at Mingus High School is simple: lowerclassmen wear red ID badge cards, and upperclassmen wear gray. But this [Read More…]
Carol Robidoux reports on an interesting FERPA privacy case out of Manchester, New Hampshire: A school board member who used social media and his public access TV show, “Girard at Large,” to expound on a student privacy issue that arose during a Nov. 13 school committee meeting has been threatened [Read More…]