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I work with several schools as part of my volunteer work. And while it's a neat idea, but it is an EdTech startup that doesn't understand the legalities of sch
by drakaal 13y ago
I work with several schools as part of my volunteer work. And while it's a neat idea, but it is an EdTech startup that doesn't understand the legalities of school data. In the 49 states that Clever isn't sitting with servers in using them would be illegal.
In most states you couldn't store data on third parties servers with out consent from the kids parents.
Using Cloud Offerings just isn't permissible in most places because of the legalities. Clever would need a lot more than $10M to change all the necessary Federal, State, County, City, laws.
- ryanhuff 13y agoSo it's a cloud solution?
- drakaal 13y agoIt is an off premise, out of state, third party, Internet based solution. Having worked with a lot of schools you can't even do this for Backups of data legally. eMail through Google, or Microsoft technically can get you in trouble if you use it for the Faculty. Basically Privacy of Minors trumps convenience for IT
- ryanhuff 13y agoI know some/many schools use hosted solutions for their SIS. How is this different?
- nl 13y agoCan you point to the actual law that outlaws this? I work in edtech, and there is a lot of FUD around this issue. I'm not in the US, so I'm not familiar with the specifics of the laws there though.
- drakaal 13y agoFERPA is the big one.http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html
- nl 13y agoIANAL, but to me that reads like it specifically gives permission of what Clever is doing. FERPA allows schools to disclose those records, without consent, to the following parties or under the following conditions (34 CFR § 99.31): ... - Organizations conducting certain studies for or on behalf of the school; - Accrediting organizations; And additionally: Schools may disclose, without consent, "directory" information such as a student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
- camworld 13y agoI believe this is the why our Armed Forces recruiters often have the names, addresses and phone numbers of our graduating seniors every year. It's usually up to the school administrators to release this information upon request, and most do. Private schools do not have this issue.
- jasonpbecker 13y agoThat's not true.