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Schools with data for sale

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Public school databases contain student names, addresses, phone numbers, gender and photos sought after by the politicians, banks, commercial driving schools, music stores, reporters and comic book outlets. This information is of great help to reporters as a source to obtain student comments on news developments or for other research purposes. It was discovered by St. Paul Pioneer Press that schools were selling personal data. Student data cannot be released without parental consent, according to federal law, however directory information is available through a general authorization from the school.

Social aspects, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, Databases, Journalism and education, Journalism education

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Trouble in schools: Learning curve

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Reporters investigating the education of special needs children and in New York City found that the students were disproportionately over-represented in the cityEs failing and most violent public high schools. At the same time, these special needs children, as a group, were losing out on the new, small schools created to improve education.

New York, School violence, Special needs students

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Dump debacle

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Tons of paint sludge was found in a neighborhood in New Jersey where a Superfund cleanup had taken place more than a decade ago. A Ford Motor Co. dumpsite was declared clean by the US Environmental Protection Agency officials and was taken off the national Superfund list however, sludge was found even ten years after the cleanup.

New Jersey, Motor Vehicles and Equipment, Pollutants produced & recycled, Environmental aspects, Ford Motor Co., Transportation equipment industry, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Waste management, F, Investigative reporting, Industrial wastes, Automotive industry

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