Public Ed Contractors Want Data. States Stop the Data Flow.

In 2014, California passed bills to protect student data from contractors. What did the bills do?

• Require “school districts to maintain control and ownership of any data managed by a private vendor.” Cal AB 1584 (2014)
• Give education technology companies until 2016 to stop selling student personal identifying information and to stop target marketing to students  CAL SB 1177

At the school district level, these actions are being taken:

• Teacher training on privacy issues.
• Use of vetted list vendors, that comply with data retention and storage restriction

The Recorder