Seattle Schools Community Forum: Protecting Your Student's Data (and Your Privacy)

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Protecting Your Student's Data (and Your Privacy):

Protecting Your Student's Data (and Your Privacy)

The Department of Education is seeking comment on a new student database.  From Student Privacy Matters:

The U.S. Department of Education intends to create a new student database to house the personally identifiable information of 12,000 students, 500 teachers and 104 principals from 104 unidentified schools in 12 school districts across the country.

The information collected on students will include vast amounts of sensitive data including, but not limited to, standardized test scores, race/ethnicity, individual education plan status, and discipline records in order to facilitate “a rigorous study of the effectiveness of providing data-driven instruction professional development to teachers and principals.” The Department of Education is accepting public comments about its data-collection plans untilFebruary 18, 2016.  There was an article about this plan in the Washington Post last month, before the comment period was extended.

Please send in your comments and join the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy in telling the Department of Education that the federal government should Seattle Schools Community Forum: Protecting Your Student's Data (and Your Privacy):