A Preliminary Analysis of the Bill by Anita Hoge Source: http://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/AEG15033.pdf This bill was presented twice and referred to committee. Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015 sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander. This bill amends No Child Left Behind which is the Re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 referred to […]
Asset Forfeiture and the Cycle of Electronic Surveillance Funding
EFF Note: The bulk of the research in this post was compiled prior to Attorney General Eric Holder’s surprise announcement that he is curtailing the federal equitable sharing program. The post may be updated as further ramifications of the policy decision become clear. “You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you […]
OBAMA TARGETS BABIES!
Assessing the babies is Obama’s agenda An Alert by Anita Hoge This is the birth to kindergarten mental health interventions for our babies. This is research for the early learning and the $1 billion that Obama is funding for daycare and preschool.
HIPAA & FERPA
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE RULES FOR HIPAA AND FERPA COVERING AN EDUCATION RECORD An Alert by Anita Hoge EDUCATION RECORDS ARE NOT COVERED BY HIPAA. NO MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AT SCHOOL ARE COVERED BY HIPAA. Explanation of HIPPA and FERPA-Early Childhood Data can be found in this document: A Look at Pennsylvania’s Early Childhood Data System http://www.ncsl.org/portals/1/documents/Educ/PAEarlyChild-Stedron.pdfReplacing Mom […]
Security is Not a Crime—Unless You’re an Anarchist
Riseup, a tech collective that provides security-minded communications to activists worldwide, sounded the alarm last month when a judge in Spain stated that the use of their email service is a practice, he believes, associated with terrorism. Javier Gómez Bermúdez is a judge of Audiencia Nacional, a special high court in Spain that deals with […]
Expert: Obama’s ‘bogus’ student data proposal won’t fix privacy problem he created
WASHINGTON, D.C. – An education analyst says President Barack Obama’s call for stronger protection of student digital data is “bogus.” The president earlier this week proposed a new Student Digital Privacy Act aimed at preventing companies from selling sensitive student information collected in schools and from using such data to target advertising to children, according […]
CHARTERS in the ESEA Re-authorization Bill!!!
Scott Walker’s Plan to Privatize Schools An Alert by Anita Hoge “After cutting a billion dollars from education, Scott Walker and his GOP friends have achieved the goal sinking the educational potential of Wisconsin Schools. On their first day back in session, Assembly Republicans seeking a free market solution have introduced a bill guaranteeing the wholesale […]
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals […]