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Republican legislator introduces bill to repeal Connecticut's STUDENT DATA PRIVACY ACT. by John Pelto @- Wait What?

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Read about the next step by the Corpocracy to end our democracy. Accessing the data of our kids while they are in school. "Steven Harding, a Republican legislator,  has proposed legislation to roll back Connecticut's Student Privacy Act. When it comes the Connecticut General Assembly and education policy, one of the most important developments was the passage, last year, of a new Connecticut Student Data Privacy Act that requires school districts to institute reasonable safeguards when selling, sharing or providing outside entities access to student information, student records, or student-generated content. Without this law, many school districts had failed to adopted appropriate policies associated with contracts between school districts and corporations that are interested in collecting, buying, selling or using what should obviously be confidential student data." 

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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