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Five Steps to Ensure Accessibility for All

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Administrators and teachers, who want to help every child reach their potential, can’t afford to wait for new laws and policies. Step 2: Develop and communicate a district-wide policy for accessibility including guidelines for accessible purchasing. Starting with the district office, all staff need to follow the accessibility policies.

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Five Critical Guidelines for Data Privacy Across School Districts

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with a clear picture of the school’s policies, how the review process works, and how the data is used. Some schools even have a web page detailing their privacy policies. As founder of the global compliance consulting firm PlayWell, LLC , Linnette advises organizations, educators, lawmakers, and policy influencers.

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5 Reasons to Address Cyber Security

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School management needs to take reasonable steps to ensure protection beyond data sharing policies. She serves on the board of PowerMyLearning Los Angeles and on the advisory board of Project Tomorrow. Liability: Districts and school leaders can be held liable for network breaches. Join the Community.

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Transitioning Edtech to the Cloud

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Working at the highest level in the nation including the Association for School Business and CoSN, she’s the information technology content leader, CoSN’s SMART Education Network by Design (SEND) advisor and a member of CoSN’s Policy committee. She was named CoSN’s volunteer of the year in 2018. Join the Community.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Speaking of ed-tech exacerbating inequality, Edsurge looks at PowerMyLearning ’s plans to give parents homework – “family playlists” – to do alongside their children. ( Via Foreign Policy : “This Beijing-Linked Billionaire Is Funding Policy Research at Washington’s Most Influential Institutions.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Policy-based Privacy is Over,” says Eric Hellman. Some (education policy) history from Sherman Dorn : “The pendulum and the ratchet.” PowerMyLearning has received $6.5 Via Engadget : “Trump signs executive order stripping non-citizens of privacy rights.” The company has raised $120.5