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Fat Shaming’s Devastating Toll on Students
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. While fat-shaming may be among the last socially acceptable forms of...
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How David Hogg’s Multimillion-Dollar Bid to Elect Young Dems Fared at the Polls
During an election that saw Republicans secure the White House and both chambers of Congress, Sarah McBride’s congressional victory in Delaware offered a historic win for Democrats, transgender...
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Trump’s School (in)Security Agenda: How the Next President Could Roll Back...
Trump’s back — and so, too, is the president-elect’s influence on policies that affect the safety and well-being of America’s students. Then-President Donald Trump speaks at a roundtable event in...
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FTC: AI ‘Weapons Detection’ Co. Evolv Misled Schools About its Safety Abilities
Updated, Nov. 26 The Federal Trade Commission has accused a company that makes AI-powered security screening systems for some 800 schools across 40 states of promoting false claims about its ability...
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Trump’s School Improvement Plan: Deport American Students
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. Even as student enrollment declines drive staggering public school closures...
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7 School Security Storylines That Topped 2024 — and Will Evolve in 2025
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. Inhale. Exhale. If you’re reading this, that means you’ve made it through...
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PowerSchool Got Hacked. Now What?
Were you a current or former student in the last few decades? Or a parent? Or an educator? If so, your sensitive data — like Social Security numbers and medical records — may have fallen into the...
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Trump Admin Guts School Safety Committee Created to Combat Mass Shootings
Updated When a broad group of parents, educators and activists met in late October at a government office building in Arlington, Virginia, they gathered around a shared goal: Make America’s schools...
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Kept in the Dark: Meet the Hired Guns Who Ensure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden
This article is published in partnership with WIRED Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the...
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The Story Behind the Story: How I Investigated More Than 300 Cyberattacks
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. It was October 2022 when Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho...
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Kept in the Dark: Inside a Trio of Los Angeles School Cyberattacks
Kept in the Dark is an in-depth investigation into more than 300 K-12 school cyberattacks over the last five years, revealing the forces that leave students, families and district staff unaware that...
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Kept in the Dark: Inside the Minneapolis Schools Cyberattack
Kept in the Dark is an in-depth investigation into more than 300 K-12 school cyberattacks over the last five years, revealing the forces that leave students, families and district staff unaware that...
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Trump Moves to Kill DEI
With America’s public education system on the chopping block of billionaire Elon Musk’s quasi-government DOGE, this week’s School (in)Security newsletter zeros in on the most recent barrage of White...
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Kept in the Dark: Inside the Providence Schools Ransomware Attack
Kept in the Dark is an in-depth investigation into more than 300 K-12 school cyberattacks over the last five years, revealing the forces that leave students, families and district staff unaware that...
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Trump’s ICE Plan Sows ‘Chaos and Fear’ in Schools
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. As President Donald Trump reportedly mulls an executive order to eliminate the...
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Kept in the Dark: Inside the Somerset, Mass., School Cyberattack
Kept in the Dark is an in-depth investigation into more than 300 K-12 school cyberattacks over the last five years, revealing the forces that leave students, families and district staff unaware that...
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Wisconsin District Sues Ed Tech Giant PowerSchool After Massive Data Breach
The St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, school district filed a federal lawsuit against education software behemoth PowerSchool Tuesday, kicking into motion a national campaign to hold the company accountable...
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The Education Department is Dead — or Is It?
There was a funeral at the White House on Thursday. Well, kind of. In an executive order, President Donald Trump demanded the 45-year-old Education Department be scaled back to its “critical...
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Thousands of Student Civil Rights Cases Left Adrift After Trump Guts Ed Dept
After a campus police officer grabbed student Ja’Liyah Celestine by the hair and kneed her in the face, she filed a federal civil rights complaint that alleged persistent racial discrimination against...
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Student Absences Have Surged Since COVID. Some Say Parents Should be Jailed
As educators nationwide grapple with stubbornly high levels of student absences since the pandemic drove schools into disarray five years ago, Oklahoma prosecutor Erik Johnson says he has the...
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School (in)Security Newsletter: Punishing Parents for Chronic Absenteeism
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. As educators nationwide grapple with stubbornly high levels of student...
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‘Spy High:’ Amazon Documentary Probes Dangers of Online Student Surveillance
It all began with a pixelated image of a Mike and Ike: the colorful, fruity candy that with a digital blur and authorities’ preconceived notions could perhaps be mistaken for a pill. That’s what...
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The ‘Spy High’ Digital Dystopia: Amazon Doc Probes Student Surveillance Harms
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. It all began when school officials mistook a blurry image of a Mike and Ike...
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Trump’s Massive Deportation Database Puts Students at Risk, Advocates Warn
Tennessee state Sen. Bo Watson wants to eject undocumented children from classrooms. But first, he needs their data. Under legislation proposed in February, students statewide could be required to...
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Trump’s Deportation Database Puts Students at Risk
School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber. Subscribe here. Tennessee state Sen. Bo Watson wants to eject undocumented students from...
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