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Every acronym, clause, and legal term you will run into when reviewing vendor agreements, explained in plain language.
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A non-profit collaboration of schools, districts, states, and software vendors dedicated to interoperability, privacy, and security in educational technology.
A4L is the parent organization behind the SDPC and the National Data Privacy Agreement. If you hear someone reference "the consortium," this is usually what they mean.
A document within the NDPA that allows a vendor to make a general public offer of their agreed-upon privacy terms, letting other LEAs ("Subscribing LEAs") piggyback onto the contract without negotiating a new one.
This is the single most powerful efficiency tool in the NDPA system. One district negotiates, and 50 more can sign on. That is why the SDPC registry exists: to make Exhibit E discoverable. A small charter school can execute an Exhibit E to adopt an existing NDPA without a full individual negotiation.
A centralized platform and two-sided marketplace where Alliances manage privacy frameworks, districts track and search for signed agreements, and vendors manage their DPA portfolios.
The Registry is the source of truth for who has signed what. ABYA sits on top of it, surfacing each district's agreements in one hub a parent or board member can actually read. When a district IT director wants to see if an NDPA already exists for a new tool, this is where they look first.
A digital badge earned automatically by a vendor when they successfully sign a standard Alliance DPA, acting as a visible signal of their commitment to student privacy.
Think of it as a trust mark. When a vendor has this badge, it means they went through the standard process. No badge? That is a question worth asking.
A special interest group of the A4L Community comprising districts, states, and vendors. It was created to address real-world student data privacy issues and establish common market expectations.
SDPC is the engine behind the NDPA, the Resource Registry, and the entire framework most districts use for vendor privacy management. If you are in K-12 privacy, you are working within the SDPC ecosystem whether you realize it or not.
ABYA pulls a district's vendors, agreements, and compliance docs into one public hub, and trains the staff on the terms above. The words on this page are what your hub makes visible and legible to parents and boards.
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