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The laws, agreements, and events that shape K-12 data privacy, explained without the legal degree.
The National Data Privacy Agreement is a standardized contract that lets districts and vendors skip the one-off negotiation. One district signs it, dozens more can adopt it. The free DPA 101 course walks through how it works and why it matters before you approve a single app.
Take the DPA 101 courseFERPA is from 1974. It predates the web by two decades. But every time a teacher logs a student into an ed-tech tool, FERPA applies. The glossary breaks down FERPA, School Official, and the exceptions a tech director leans on when approving teacher requests.
Read the FERPA termsEd-tech vendors get breached. When it happens, your DPA is what decides how fast you find out and what the vendor is on the hook to do. The Incident Library tracks active vendor incidents so you can see who is affected and what the agreement should require.
See the live Incident Library