Student Data Privacy for Washington State Public School Students
My big focus for the foreseeable future is student data privacy . Data collection is the future of our nation and nowhere else is that more clear than public education. My goal is a student data privacy bill passed in the Washington State Legislature. In a future thread, I will outline what SPS is doing versus what it should be doing but really, I don't have time to wait for the Board to wake up (and district leadership is a lost cause). We need a robust law to protect our public school children. Data is a good thing - like standards and assessments. But it's all in the collection and implementation and uses and that's the devil in the details that needs attention. You cannot stop an idea. And the idea today is that vast amounts of data are going to better our lives and, allegedly, the lives of our children and grandchildren. But we can use the force of law and especially our Constitution, to protect that data from going everywhere to ne...