Urgent: send a letter to DOE today to oppose regulations that would profoundly weaken NYC student privacy!

Oct. 21, 2024

Please send a letter today to the Chancellor, the DOE Chief Privacy officer and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, in opposition to proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 pertaining to student privacy. If adopted, these proposals would allow the DOE to share student names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and birth dates with anyone they please, and with essentially no restrictions. The proposed regs would also weaken protections for student health records and omit the strongest security provisions in state law designed to prevent hacking and breaches.

The letter urges the DOE to postpone the vote on these regulations, now scheduled for Oct. 30, until they are significantly rewritten, and until officials have met with parents and advocates to hear about our concerns. A letter sent today on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy with more detail about the problems with these proposed regulations is here. Please also consider showing up to speak about this issue at the next PEP meeting where a vote is scheduled to approve on these regs, on Wed. Oct. 30 at 6:00pm at M.S. 131, 100 Hester Street in Manhattan.

2. To learn more about this issue as well as the other irresponsible manner in which DOE has been handling and sharing student data, including their promotion of Teenspace, the online mental health service that shares student personal information with TikTok, Facebook, Google and more, sign up for our special privacy briefing this Wed. Oct. 23 at 7 PM, co-sponsored by AQE, by registering here.

Thanks, Leonie

Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
124 Waverly Pl.
New York, NY 10011
phone: 917-435-9329
[email protected]
http://www.classsizematters.org/

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