The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) is an unique collaborative of schools, districts, regional, territories and state agencies, policy makers, trade organizations and marketplace providers addressing real-world, adaptable, and implementable solutions to growing data privacy concerns. The Consortium also leverages work done by numerous partner organizations but focuses on issues being faced by “on-the-ground” practitioners.
The Consortium has had phenomenal leadership over the past few years. The leadership, guidance and overall dedication to the Consortium prove critical to our collective successes, but now it is your chance to get involved and nominate yourself, or a colleague, to be part of this great leadership team! […]
Washington, DC, 29 July, 2020 —The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a special interest group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, is proud to announce the release of the first National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA) to streamline application contracting and set common expectations between schools/districts and marketplace providers. […]
As we stated in our recent Student Privacy and COVID-19 print piece, “The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that we educate kids by shifting their majority ‘brick and mortar’ setting to an online delivery model. This shift has put huge new demands on school personnel, parents, technology providers and […]
Washington, DC, 19 May, 2020 — The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC), a special interest group of the non-profit Access 4 Learning (A4L) Community, continues their support for the pandemic-driven shift to virtual education by announcing the SDPC Vendor Signatory Badge Program. The 28 State SDPC Alliances, representing over […]
Making sure it is not ‘too good to be true…’ The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way that we educate kids by shifting their majority ‘brick and mortar’ setting to an online delivery model. This shift has put huge new demands on school personnel, parents, technology providers and the […]
For all membership renewals, with an invoice due date of March 1, 2020 onwards, a revised pricing structure will apply. This follows feedback from Community members and we hope this will enable additional Vendors to join the growing Consortium! Membership Category A4L Community membership Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) membership […]
Welcome to 2020! We hope you enjoy this first Update of the year and get you thinking about some possible “what’s next” for the Community… oh, and happy Data Privacy Day! View as PDF Setting Student Privacy Common Expectations Between End Users and Marketplace Providers Periodically we […]
Download the PDF >> Are you looking for a way to show current and potential customers your organization’s support in addressing their student data privacy concerns? …You might be already, and not even know it! The Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) is a unique collaborative of schools, states […]
“Setting common expectations between end users and marketplace providers” was one of the original goals for the Student Data Privacy Consortium. We can say that we are moving the needle on that goal but now we can collectively add to that “moving the marketplace toward greater student data privacy” – […]
Steve Smith, co-Founder of the Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) and member of the SDPC Governance Group, was invited to participate in the FTC “Future of COPPA Workshop” held in Washington DC, on October 7, 2019. Steve participated on the panel entitled “Definitions, Exceptions and Misconceptions”. In addition to highlighting the […]