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About the Consortium

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Let's get 'Tactical' on Student Data Privacy

There are numerous organizations providing some great guidance, effective practices and/or tools to address various student data privacy issues. The challenge is that much of this work does not address many of the “immediate and on the ground” needs seen by schools, districts, divisions, states and territories each day. We call these issues “tactical privacy” issues. The Consortium’s members address these day-to-day, real-world multi-faceted issues faced each day by privacy stewards in the protection of learner information.

Origin

A4L’s Student Data Privacy Consortium (SDPC) is an unique collaborative of schools, districts, divisions, 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.

Consortium Goals

Establish a community of stakeholders who have various needs addressed through policy, technology and/or effective practice sharing around effective privacy management

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Develop tools and resources to address operational issues not currently being addressed

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Develop a clearinghouse of student data privacy operational issues and resources to support schools, districts, states and vendors in managing those issues – no matter where the resources originate

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Identify projects that have on-the-ground and real-world impact on student data privacy enabling schools, districts, state and vendors find resources, adapt them to their unique context and implement needed protections

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Leverage partnership organizations working in the privacy space to have their good work utilized and no reinvention of existing work

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Governance

The Management Board leadership serves the Consortium in various functions including:

  • Meeting Delivery (scheduling, note taking, document (physical and digital) generation, etc.
  • Finance and Outreach Support (invoicing, marketing, finance reporting, outreach, etc.)
  • Project Support (management, maintenance, expansion, curating of the resources, tools, etc.)

To view the elected SDPC Management Board members CLICK HERE >>

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The SDPC model Data Privacy Agreements (DPAs) have had a huge impact on the K12 EdTech ecosystem by establishing common expectations and streamlining the DPA execution process for both districts and providers.

Since 2016, over 222,000 standard DPAs have been executed and subscribed to.

By applying an average legal fee of $250 per hour, and minimal negotiation time of 1hr for each district and vendor per DPA, these standard DPAs have saved participating districts and vendors over $111 million.