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How Lessons Learned From “Yik Yak” Can Help You Address The Next Novel Social...
The big news in education technology this week is Yik Yak, a free, anonymous social networking application that allows users to post comments that can be seen by others within a 5- to 10-mile radius....
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Iowa Case Highlights Often Overlooked Risk of Releasing Personal Emails in...
As a frequent advisor to school districts on freedom of information requests, the question I face most often is how a public body can protect a sensitive document from release. Rarely am I asked what...
View ArticleNSBA to OCR: Standard for Addressing Requests for Technology by Students With...
Readers of our FR Alerts may remember my colleague Kendra B. Yoch authored an Alert in 2013 about a set of outlier cases in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, K.M. v. Tustin Unified School District...
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District Must Reimburse Special Education Student for Data Plan Required by...
Those who follow the intersection between special education and technology know there is a dearth of administrative decisions and case law addressing what, if any, responsibility school districts have...
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Is Your School District’s Lack of Social Media Guidelines Putting the...
School districts are under growing scrutiny and criticism for the lack of clear social media guidelines and policies. For instance, after a Michigan teacher reportedly was sentenced to 6 to 15 years...
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Another Circuit Court Recognizes Schools’ Right to Discipline Students for...
In a recent case, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit joined four other circuits in recognizing the right of school districts to discipline students for at least some off-campus, online speech...
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New Legislation Leaves Illinois Schools “Locked Out” of Student Social Media...
Recent amendments to Illinois law draw back on rights of post-secondary, secondary, and elementary schools to request or require access to student social networking accounts such as Facebook and...
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School Leaders: Are Your Automatic Phone Messages and Texts Breaking The Law?
In the past few months, we’ve had a flurry of requests from schools about the legality of automated calls and text messages they are making to cell phones. The Telecommunications Consumer Protection...
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Is Google Illegally Spying On Your Students? New FTC Complaint Says It Is
Google Apps for Education has recently come under fire with a Federal Trade Commission complaint filed by a nonprofit organization, Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a press release issued last week,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Refuses to Provide Clarity on Discipline for Off-Campus, Online...
The Supreme Court has a lot to worry about these days, like a year plus of finding out first hand what can happen (or not happen) to your ability to make precedent when you have a 4-4 deadlock on the...
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