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Managing State-wide Student Data Privacy Compliance
How Connecticut Uses LearnPlatform to Empower Districts and Protect Student Data
Connecticut’s student data privacy law requires school districts to have contracts with any educational technology providers who have access to students’ personal data. This work is challenging and critical, and the state wanted to give its local education agencies (LEAs) the support they needed to comply with the law.
The Connecticut Educational Software Hub allows districts to search for edtech products that are compliant with the state privacy law. It can also help ease the burden of compliance by organizing edtech into a single system and streamlining processes for product vetting, procurement and evaluation.
Having 169 districts and thousands of educational technology companies separately interpret and act on our state’s student data privacy law has proven hugely time-intensive, duplicative and inefficient…
Doug Casey
Executive Director, CT Commission for Educational Technology
District Stories
21 schools, 10,500+ students
Norwalk Public Schools
Challenge
Norwalk Public Schools struggled to manage all the edtech products in use across the district, especially around the topic of privacy. This made it difficult to meet the state’s compliance requirements. The district also wanted a better way to communicate effective, compliant tools directly to teachers and families.
We were struggling to manage all aspects of digital software applications in use across the district. LearnPlatform gave us the ability to manage the workflow of signed vendor privacy agreements with ease.
Cathy Orgovan
Enterprise Software Systems Manager, Norwalk Public Schools
Solution
Norwalk uses LearnPlatform to facilitate its provider applications, and product request and vetting processes. Now the district can streamline engagement with edtech providers to gather the product information it needs to ensure compliance with state privacy requirements, and standardize processes for educators to find, request and receive feedback on new solutions that meet the district’s standards.
8 schools, 4,000+ students
Cheshire Public Schools
Challenge
Cheshire Public Schools needed more visibility into how purchased products were actually being used by teachers and students. They also lacked a clear view of which free tools were being accessed by teachers and students, and whether they were compliant with district policies.
Solution
With LearnPlatform’s centralized product library that includes teacher feedback, Cheshire can see which edtech products are used, which they are paying for and what is compliant. This allows the district to base purchasing decisions on real data and stop paying for what wasn’t being utilized.
Teachers can now easily see which products are approved for use based on a variety of privacy approval status, and parents can access product-specific student data privacy agreements through the public, shareable product library.
5 schools, 1,500+ students
Windsor Locks Schools
Challenge
Windsor Locks School District lacked a central location for housing contracts and privacy agreements with edtech providers, making it difficult to make contracts visible and transparent for both teachers and families.
I've rolled out many, many systems in my time as an educator, and LearnPlatform was the easiest implementation I've ever seen.
Mike Papa
Manager of Technology Services, Cheshire Public Schools
Solution
With LearnPlatform, Windsor Locks administrators organize their contracts and privacy agreements in a single, accessible location. They could also quickly and clearly communicate the privacy and approval statuses for all products to teachers and to parents through the district’s public, shareable product library.
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