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.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 1995
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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.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2005
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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.
Publication Name: The IRE Journal
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0164-7016
Year: 2006
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