room and on the school bus is protected.” Tyler is actively engaged with school district IT
departments working in conjunction with their state’s student data privacy oversight organization to help im- plement student data privacy guidelines for technology providers to follow, he added. “Tyler is working with California’s CITE organization,
the Texas Student Privacy Alliance, and other similar organizations in Connecticut, Illinois and New York, to name a few,” said Thien. “Statewide efforts like these help technology providers evolve their solutions to address the unique student data privacy concerns in that locale.” School bus data privacy should be a part of the over-
all school district’s data privacy plan, added CalAmp’s Westerman. Westerman said that while protecting school bus data
is important, it is also important to enable this data to be readily available to the appropriate school officials when needed. “Knowing the real-time location and sensor statuses
on a bus that is broken down or a bus that needs to be monitored during a man-made or natural disaster is crucial,” he added. “Going to an extreme and thinking that shutting down a GPS tracking solution because of
data concerns is not really a viable option. “Vendors like CalAmp can work with school officials to ensure that school bus data is properly protected and yet also ensure that telematics data is readily available in time of need.” Today, IT directors are being asked to reach out to
vendors to make sure the vendor complies with current laws such as Illinois’ Student Online Personal Protection Act, said Zonar’s Dickey. The intent of the legislation is stated as such: “Schools
today are increasingly using a wide range of beneficial online services and other technologies to help students learn, but concerns have been raised about whether sufficient safeguards exist to protect the privacy and security of data about students when it is collected by educational technology companies.” “This Act is intended to ensure that student data will be
protected when it is collected by educational technology companies and that the data may be used for beneficial purposes such as providing personalized learning and innovative educational technologies,” Dickey explained. Directors of IT often reach out to vendors for help in drafting a data privacy agreement (DPA) that covers both parties in case of a data breach, he observed.
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