By Samantha Cleaver
Last of a series.

School districts across the country spent the summer hedging bets on how the 2020-21 year would begin amid COVID-19.
Now, as students fill backpacks to return to school in-person or online, Digital Privacy News is examining how this year will impact students’ and teachers’ privacy.
“We are behind the eight-ball,” said Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute. “These are conversations we should have been facilitating in May and June.”
Today’s Digital Privacy News report examines what school districts have learned from the spring online learning season brought on by COVID.
When Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia had to shift to emergency learning in the spring, Vincent Scheivert, assistant superintendent for digital innovation, found that the available applications often weren’t ready — particularly when it came to privacy.
Continue reading “Districts Implement Lessons from Spring Emergency Online Learning”