Our Strategy

To fight back we need to nationalize this problem. We can do that by taking advantage of the rights granted to parents by the very regulation we are fighting to change…FERPA.

This problem has outgrown the ability of any individual school district to combat. It is time for the Department of Education to enforce the laws that are already on the books and rein in Ed Tech’s exploitation of our kids’ personal information. 

Parent Volunteers Needed

Parents from all 50 states are legally allowed to request for access to their children’s data from their local school district, as provided by FERPA.  By law, districts have 45 days to respond. It is unlikely that any can or will.

Don’t worry— we expect that no school district will be able to adequately respond to the requests, owing to the sheer number of Ed Tech vendors used by the typical school district, school districts’ lack of control over these companies, and the historical unwillingness of Ed Tech vendors to turn over student data.

Once a district fails to fully respond to a parent’s request for their child’s data, it becomes a matter for the Department of Education. This is a national problem worthy of its enforcement efforts.