School ?WebcamGate’ woes not yet over
Two civil lawsuits are still pending against the suburban Philadelphiaschool district. A federal class action lawsuit filed in February by highschool sophomore Blake Robbins and his parents Michael and Holly. The suitalleges that the Lower Merion School District secretly spied on its 2,300students while in the privacy of their homes. A total of 56,000 images werecaptured using the iSight webcams on the school-issue...
Back-burnered San Francisco Schools Committee Now Moving to Forefront
In 2003, a committee was created with members appointed from the city Boardof Supervisors and the Board of Education. In the beginning, the committee wasused to discuss joint concerns on issues, such as affordable housing forteachers, student nutrition, and graffiti in the San Francisco schools.Unfortunately, the structure of the joint committee was a matter of contentionfrom the committee’s inception with an imb...