A new report from CoSN examines gaps and opportunities in student data privacy at schools and districts across the country. The 2025 National Student Data Privacy ...

In the year 2025, no one should have to be convinced that protecting data privacy matters. For education institutions, it’s really that simple of a priority–and that complicated. Despite the passage ...

For example, a social media platform specifically targeting children may have different obligations from an online retailer that only incidentally reaches children. There are also federal student ...

The department announced Thursday it’s investigating Tufts University and the National Student Clearinghouse over alleged student privacy violations in the National Study of Learning, Voting and ...

This article was originally published in Chalkbeat. Since the release of ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, the number of AI tools has skyrocketed, and there are now many advocates for the ...

"These claims are completely false." ...

WASHINGTON, DC (October 15, 2024) – The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) today announced that the Illinois Learning Technology Center (LTC), a program of the Illinois State Board of Education, ...

Many school district technology leaders are struggling to establish fundamental student data privacy practices, partly due to a lack of support from the rest of the district, concludes a new report ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – PowerSchool is the latest victim of a nationwide cyberattack. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools across the country, including Kansas. The ...

Protecting student data is critical for school district IT leaders, but many cite leadership and training gaps, along with time and manpower, as obstacles in that ...

Nearly three quarters of ed-tech leaders in the U.S. who oversee student data privacy for their district don't have that task in their job description, and 17 percent of them have no training in the ...