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NEWSLETTER | Issue 32
WELCOME TO OUR NEW A4L
COMMUNITY MEMBERS!
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Update: Student Data Privacy Consortium
The Student Data Privacy Consortium
(SDPC) is growing from strength to
strength, with two new member
applications over the last month from
RISTE and CETPA.
The SDPC Consortium goals are to:
The membership commitment from the
US Department of Education is critical
in their continuing support for states
and schools in implementing the Every
Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) most
notably
through
the
successful
implementation of the Common
Education Data Standards (CEDS). The
CEDS project is a national collaborative
effort to develop voluntary, common
data standards for a key set of
education data elements to streamline
the
exchange,
comparison,
and
understanding of data within and
across P-20W institutions and sectors.
Included
with
their
overarching
membership are twelve Offices of the
Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Under
Secretary.
Establish
a
community
of
stakeholders who have various
needs addressed through policy,
technology and/or effective practice
sharing around effective privacy
management,
Identify projects that have on-theground and real-world impact on
student data privacy enabling
schools, districts, state and vendors
find resources, adapt them to their
unique context and implement
needed protections,
Develop tools and resources to
address operational issues not
currently being addressed,
Leverage partnership organizations
working in the privacy space to have
their good work utilized and no
reinvention of existing work,
Develop a clearinghouse of student
data privacy operational issues and
resources to support schools,
districts, states and vendors in
managing those issues – no matter
where the resources originate.
The SDPC group are currently finalizing
their governance model as well as
working on the following:
West’s Education group, part of West
Corporation, is the trusted provider of
SchoolMessenger solutions. Thousands
of schools and other educational
institutions in all 50 U.S. states and
Canada depend on SchoolMessenger
products
and
services.
From
notifications and websites to custom
mobile apps and social media, school
leaders
have
relied
on
the
SchoolMessenger platform since 1999
to engage with their communities in
multiple languages and on any device.
Track One: Leveraging the work
undertaken by the Massachusetts
Student Privacy Alliance (MSPA), the
group are working to create a privacy
contract framework.
With clear
benefits to agencies as well as vendors
though optimizing the legal processes
of jurisdictional provision coverage, this
project exponentially expands the
MSPA work across states and provides
technical tools to streamline contract
preparation/management.
Track Two: Is designed for schools,
districts or regional organizations/
associations or state agencies that do
have a model/template contract
designed
specifically
for
their
jurisdiction and are ready to create a
jurisdictional specific alliance for the
purpose of utilizing shared model
contracts. Organizations entering into
the project via track two will utilize
SDPC products and services to create
and implement a specific jurisdictional
alliance. These resources will include an
on line tool for the management of the
contracting process by all alliance
members,
including
inventorying
applications, tracking contract status,
posting
contracts,
and
creating
transparency with all stakeholders.
For more information, please visit the
SDPC website: https://privacy.a4l.org/