Please send a letter today to the Chancellor, the DOE Chief privacy officer and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy, opposing proposed revisions to Chancellor’s regulation A-820 pertaining to student privacy, by entering your information to the right.

These proposed revisions would essentially allow the DOE to share the names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of students with anyone they please, and with no restrictions except an unreliable parent opt out method. They would also weaken privacy protections for student health records as well as the security provisions in state law to defend against hacking and breaches.  

The letter urges the DOE to postpone the vote on these regulations, now scheduled for Oct. 30, until they are fundamentally revised, and until DOE officials have met with parents and advocates to hear more about our concerns. A letter sent on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy with more detail about these and other significant weaknesses in the proposed regulations is posted here.