Compliance in Academia
FERPA, COPPA, CIPA, state student-privacy laws, and the AI-in-classroom vendor responsibilities that districts and universities now check for. What EdTech vendors, K-12 IT teams, and higher-ed compliance officers actually need to prove — with the 2027 enforcement posture already in scope.
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COPPA Compliance Checklist for EdTech (Under-13)
The COPPA checklist for EdTech under-13, the mistakes founders make first, and what FTC enforcement actions actually cost. Refreshed for the 2026-27 school year.
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FERPA Compliance Checklist for EdTech Startups
The practical guide for EdTech founders selling to K-12 and higher ed. Student data privacy without the complexity. Refreshed for the 2026-27 school year.
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CIPA for the 2027-28 E-Rate Window: What Schools Now Expect From Vendors
CIPA hasn't changed on paper. What changed is that districts now have both the FCC cybersecurity-pilot funding and the visibility to enforce it against AI-mediated classroom tools. The five artifacts vendors need to produce (content-safety alignment, turn-level monitoring, training-data attestation, sub-processor register, student-data incident response) before the 2027-28 filing window opens.
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COPPA 2027: What Changed After the FTC Rule Update and How Vendors Adjust
The FTC unanimously finalized a substantial COPPA rule update on January 16, 2025 with full compliance required by April 22, 2026. Five specific tightenings, an expanded definition of personal information that now covers biometrics and government IDs, and the six adjustments EdTech vendors need to make before district DPAs get renegotiated for the 2027-28 filing window.
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FERPA Violations in the AI Era: 10 Real Cases and What They Will Cost in 2027
Most FERPA violations are not dramatic breaches. They are routine access-audit failures that never come up until an inspection or a records request. Ten cases (LAUSD/AllHere, Illuminate, Pearson, Chegg, Minneapolis, FCPS, plus four common failure patterns), what each vendor or district failed to prove, and what the 2027 posture will look for when AI-mediated classrooms are in scope.
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State Student-Privacy Patchwork in 2027: SOPPA, SOPIPA, NY Ed Law 2-d, and What Vendors Have to Prove
"We are FERPA-compliant" is the wrong answer to a district in Illinois or New York. The state-by-state map of the meaningfully-different student-privacy statutes stacking on top of FERPA, what is changing in 2027, and how the SDPC National Data Privacy Agreement short-circuits the per-state re-answer cycle.
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