Please send a letter today to the NYC Schools Chancellor, the Dept of Education Chief Privacy Officer and the members of the Panel for Educational Policy,  the NYC school board, opposing proposed revisions to the regulations pertaining to student privacy.

These proposed revisions would essentially allow the NYC Dept. of Education to share the names, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of students with anyone they like, and with no restrictions except an unreliable parent opt out method. They would also weaken privacy protections for student health records as well as the security provisions in state law to defend against hacking and breaches.

The letter urges the DOE to postpone the vote on these regulations, now scheduled for Oct. 30, until they are fundamentally revised, and until DOE officials have met with parents and advocates to hear more about our concerns. A letter sent on behalf of Class Size Matters and the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy with more detail about these and other significant weaknesses in the proposed regulations is posted here and below.  Thanks!