Sunday, March 16, 2014

Louisiana Educator: Important Student Data Privacy Bills

Louisiana Educator: Important Student Data Privacy Bills:



Important Student Data Privacy Bills



Four important bills dealing with student data privacy will be considered by the Louisiana House Education Committee this Wednesday, March 19. If your State Representative is a member of the House Education Committee, you may want to send him/her an email expressing your opinion on student privacy. If you want to check to see who your state Representative is, just click on this link to the legislative web site, type in your address and it will list your State Representative, State Senator, and Congresspersons. You should then simply click on your State Representative's  name to go to his/her web page and get his/her email address. Save it on your email contact list and you will be ready to send him/her emails when there are important education bills to be voted on.

In fact, I am asking you to send your state representative an email this Monday or Tuesday particularly if he/she serves on the House Education CommitteePlease do your part if you care about student data privacy!

This Wednesday, March 19th the House Education Committee will be voting on 4 bills that deal with privacy of student data. They are HB 384HB 555HB 560, and HB 946. You can view each bill by clicking on the bill number. 
 
Many Louisiana parents have made it clear that they are very