Digital Smarts - Report Grades States on Student Data Protection
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Not one state earned a perfect score for their student-data privacy protections on a new report card released by The Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and the Network for Public Education. The highest grade awarded, a B, went to Colorado, while three states—New Hampshire, New York, and Tennessee—received the second-highest average grade of "B-." Eleven states received an "F." These states include Alabama, Alaska, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin. Each state was graded on seven categories, which include transparency, parental and student rights, limits on commercial use of data, and enforcement. Do you know how your children’s educational data is stored and shared?