The Department of Education on Wednesday launched investigations into four Kansas school districts over allegations that they allow males into female spaces and hide students’ transgender status from parents.
A coalition of leaders of more than 100 organizations — both nationally and in 31 states — is calling on Congress to rewrite the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and to recognize the government has no right to or role in children’s private data collection.
In response to Irving, Texas, school trustees saying “no” to declaring their district a “sanctuary,” one area activist reacted by telling high school students to boycott their classes on Thursday and Friday.
Baylor officials rejected a petition authored by a handful of graduate students who pushed the private university’s Christian values as progressive grounds for adopting “sanctuary campus” policies.
Trustees at one Texas border school district unanimously passed a resolution to make it a sanctuary for its illegal immigrant students and their families.
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump says that, if elected, he would close the loopholes in the federal privacy law to ensure that students’ personal information remained private.
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced a bill Thursday that would return control of student education records back to parents and their children.
The Texas Attorney General issued an Attorney General Opinion on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 favorable to University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall. The opinion states that a university cannot prohibit individual regents from having access to copies of university records unless a state or federal law provides otherwise.
The conservative Washington, D.C.-based American Principles in Action (APIA) is urging Congress to oppose the Strengthening Education Through Research Act (SETRA), which the group states would extend federal psychological profiling of children through increased research on “social and emotional learning.”
The Texas school district where controversial “White” and “Power” signs were captured by a student’s cell phone camera at a recent high school basketball game has completed its internal investigation to determine any if wrongdoing occurred. The investigation resulted in a
After enticing states into a binding promise to develop their student databases, President Obama now says he will call for legislation that will protect students from commercial data mining.
