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- The Dayton Daily News gives us a roundup of legislatively-mandated changes to K-12 education coming up this year. Chad is here, discussing a provision that limits monitoring of and access to a large swath of student data, especially electronically. “There’s going to be a higher bar for protecting student privacy and the use of student data,” he says, “It will be really important for school districts to work with their general counsel to make sure that they are properly protecting student information.” (Dayton Daily News, 8/8/24)
- Speaking of technology changes (were we, really?), Columbus City Schools announced this week it is drastically curtailing its take-home Chromebook and WiFi-hotspot programs for the new school year. Chromebooks will be for in-class use only for grades K-8, except for some limited “check out” units if students really need them. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi hotspot devices have been demoted from “a bit of a necessity” for students
when someone else was paying for themduring the pandemic to a “much more targeted” commodity for students with “demonstrable need” for internet access. (Columbus Dispatch, 8/9/24) - No changes in Dayton City Schools’ transportation system this year. That’s because, the supe says, things went so well last year that “any moves to do something else might destabilize the work we’ve already put in.” To prove that everything’s great, we have two pieces of information: The supe’s word, and the fact that the district settled with the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and did not have to pay any fines for all of the times it failed to properly transport charter and private school students in the past. (Dayton Daily News, 8/7/24)
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