Student & Child Privacy Center
Updates on emerging student privacy and cybersecurity issues and best practices.
With over 130 state student privacy laws being passed since 2014, new federal regulations on the horizon and school cyber attacks becoming unfortunately more frequent, the AASA Student & Child Privacy Center is designed to bridge the resource gap by providing low-barrier insights to stakeholders, especially those who do not have access to costly legal expertise.
The Center:
- Distributes rapid-response stakeholder alerts when there are significant developments in the student and child privacy landscape
- Publishes short resources on student and child privacy issues for AASA stakeholders
- Provides non-partisan legislative tracking and analysis related to student and child privacy issues for the AASA Advocacy & Governance team
- Disseminates student privacy and cybersecurity insights through public speaking engagements and being a resource for the press
The Student & Child Privacy Center is fully funded in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previous project funders include the Data Quality Campaign and WestEd.
Updates & Alerts
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August 21, 2024
Registration Open for CISA 2024 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and SecurityThe 2024 National Summit on K-12 School Safety and Security will be held on September 25 and 26. Registration is currently open.
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August 01, 2024
Senate Passes Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act (KOSPA)Earlier this week, the Senate passed KOSPA (which incorporates both COPPA 2.0 and KOSA) by a vote of 91-3.
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July 29, 2024
AASA Joins 10 National Education Groups in Response to Privacy LegislationAASA joined ten other national organizations in a letter to the Senate expressing their support for COPPA 2.0 as included in the bill, and continued deep concern for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) as included in the bill.
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July 23, 2024
Biden Administration Releases New Kids Online Safety ReportThe Biden-Harris Administration’s Kids Online Health and Safety Task Force released a new report with recommendations and best practices for safer social media and online platform use for youth.
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June 20, 2024
NEW Suite of Resources on Privacy Laws: PPRA, FERPA and more!The team of the AASA Student and Child Privacy Center just released a set of resources designed to support superintendents in implementation of and compliance with a set of privacy laws.
Resources
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June 27, 2024
The Pillars of Well-Designed Student Privacy LegislationTopics:This report highlights the twelve foundational pillars of well-designed student privacy legislation, aiming to equip state policymakers with the knowledge and tools necessary to craft and continuously improve state-level student privacy protections. -
June 27, 2024
Mitigating Risks in Student Surveys: An Overview of PPRAA brief history of the PPRA, guidelines for applying the law, lessons learned from past misapplications of PPRA, and best practices for compliant and effective social emotional learning (SEL) survey administration in school. -
June 27, 2024
Fixing FERPATopics:This comprehensive series explores the current challenges of implementing the 50-year-old Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) – the U.S.’s primary student privacy law – in modern classrooms, and proposes actionable solutions to revamp FERPA’s privacy protections for the 21st century. -
May 14, 2024
The K-12 Privacy Policy GuideType:Toolkit Topics: Advocacy & Policy, Technology & AIHow to quickly spot red flags in app and technology platform privacy policies. -
May 01, 2024
Legal Risks of Your Schools’ Social PlatformsType:Article Topics: Technology & AIA few best practices from an education lawyer about managing the district’s social media accounts.
Meet the Team
The Student & Child Privacy Center is staffed through the newly formed Public Interest Privacy Center, an emerging nonprofit being incubated at AASA and led by Amelia Vance, a globally recognized student privacy expert who has been a leader in the student privacy space for over a decade.
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Support for Education Leaders
Questions about student privacy? Looking for resources? Want to collaborate?
Send your questions to Amelia Vance at avance@aasa.org.