$14M gift horse from Mark Zuckerberg to CPS? Email your reps about student privacy!
HB1295, the Student Information Transparency Act, a bill that RYH Action helped draft. We'll be meeting with the opponents of this bill again next week for further negotiations. You can help us by writing a quick note to your legislators about why action on student privacy is more urgent than ever.
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Protect IL school students' personal data: Comprehensive legislation needed
Raise Your Hand Action is calling for comprehensive legislation to protect the security and privacy of Illinois students’ personally identifiable information (PII). Public education is a common good. In an era of big data, our government ignores the public good when the public school system does not ensure that student data is protected. In order to receive an education, public school students must not be forced to forfeit their rights to privacy and a secure digital footprint.
Read moreSpringfield 4.27.2018: Fighting the good fight (and winning!)
Good news—we accomplished most of our goals in Springfield this week!
Read moreSpringfield update: New (good!) student data transparency bill
In January, RYH Action wrote a student data transparency bill with guidance from Rachael Stickland of the national group Parent Coalition for Student Privacy. As computer usage and data collection increases in public ed, parents have the right to know who is collecting, storing and sharing what data on their children, and this bill would do just that.
Read more2018 LSC Elections are this week!!!
LSC Elections take place this week! Below are some important things you need to know.
Read moreSpringfield news: 2 bills move forward, still looking for sponsors
Good news! Two of the bills we are working on passed out of committee in the IL House on Tuesday, April 10th. Here's what you can do next!
Read moreIt’s witness slip-o-rama: Weigh in on these education bills!
Big week in Springfield coming up: Friday is the deadline for bills to get out of committee in the House and Senate. On Tuesday the 10th there are two education committee hearings in the House and one in the Senate. There’s a lot of education legislation on the docket, and this is a crucial time to register your opposition and support by filing witness slips.
Read moreWitness Slip Time!
There’s a hearing in the IL Senate Education Committee tomorrow afternoon (Tues. March 13th) at 1:30pm covering several bills important for public ed advocates like you to weigh in on!
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