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Technology services agreements entered into, amended, or renewed by a local education agency on or after January 1, 2015 must include specific requirements. These requirements apply to contracts for services that utilize electronic technology, including cloud-based services, for the digital storage, management and retrieval of pupil records, as well as educational software that authorizes a […]

Using an FAQ format, this guide offers school boards information to help them ensure that their districts have sound policies and practices in place to protect all the data created, collected and stored as part of school operations and to respond appropriately in the event of a data breach.

This guide is a resource for K-12 public school board members. It is designed to help you identify the crucial issues associated with student privacy when your district uses online educational services, and recommends a comprehensive approach to addressing student data privacy protection.

This Article claims to assist stakeholders in building a better partnership by: • Explaining the concept of cloud computing and how it is being used in schools; • Highlighting the regulatory issues raised by new technologies (with a focus on data protection and data privacy issues); • Offering guidance to school districts who wish to […]

The Forum Guide to the Privacy of Student Information: A Resource for Schools was written to help school and local education agency staff better understand and apply FERPA, a federal law that protects privacy interests of parents and students in student education records. This guide defines terms such as “education records” and “directory information”; and […]

This guide is for local education agencies who wish to understand their obligations under student privacy statutes and other Federal laws with respect to undocumented students and their families.

This guide is for educators who wish to better understand their obligations under the variety of student privacy statutes.

This chart provides an overview of what types of personally identifiable information are protected by various federal and state student privacy laws.

This curriculum is aimed at bringing students to a better understanding of the consequences of exposing their own personal information and to help them understand the importance of respecting the privacy of others.

The Incident Response Tool and Flowchart guides administrators through all the steps of incident management: fact-finding, documentation, reporting, engaging the appropriate school officials and other stakeholders, as well as outreach to parents, students, and staff. The Incident Response Tool also helps administrators through the investigation process where they need to ask the right questions to […]