Tampa Bay Area Schools Provide Updates On Masks And Need For Teachers, Bus Drivers
usf.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usf.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Tampa-Area Schools Update On Masks And Need For Teachers, Bus Drivers
usf.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usf.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Itâs about time Pasco schools and the sheriff ended surveillance program | Editorial
Intelligence-gathering on students isnât mentoring.
Â
Â
Pasco Sheriff Chris Nocco, shown here, and the Pasco County School Board reversed course Tuesday on a controversial data-sharing agreement involving students.
This article represents the opinion of the Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board.
Published Earlier today
It took months of bad press, community effort and outside pressure. But the Pasco County Sheriffâs Office and School Board finally came to the right decision by ending a program that gave the Sheriffâs Office access to private student information.
The
Tampa Bay Times reported in November that the school district shared information on student grades, discipline and attendance with the Sheriffâs Office, which used the data to compile a secret list of schoolchildren it believed could âfall into a life of crime,â according to the agencyâs i
Sheriff, school board revise plan to access student data Follow Us
Question of the Day
By - Associated Press - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - A Florida school district and the local sheriff’s officers agreed Tuesday that resource officers will no longer have access to student data, including the school system’s early warning system that designates students as “at risk.”
The revised agreement between the Pasco County’ Sheriff’s Office and the county’s school board came amid a U.S. Department of Education investigation into whether sharing such information violated federal law.
A sheriff’s analyst who serves on the school system’s threat-assessment team will still be able to review student data, the Tampa Bay Times reported. And the agency will still be able to access that information in cases of public safety emergencies, including child abductions.