Del Norte Schools Internet Privacy Policies:

Student Data Privacy Policy:

At the Del Norte School District, your child’s privacy is important to us. Our students, parents, and guardians should expect assurances that their child’s personal information is secure and protected. Questions often arise about the online curriculum portals, mobile apps, and exciting new technologies that we used and the data that we collect to verify the success of our educational programs. The Del Norte School district is committed to sharing with you our CLEAR DATA PRIVACY PROTECTION POLICIES.

WHAT DATA DOES DEL NORTE SCHOOLS COLLECT?

NATIONAL & STATE ASSESSMENTS: Del Norte Schools collects results from local, state, and national assessments to provide our teachers, parents, and administrators important information about student program performance which affects our education programs continuation or adoption of new programs.

SCHOOL NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS: To ensure student and staff safety, we collect data including address, phone numbers, gender, and age that help us run our school operations with efficiency.

MEASURING STUDENT PROGRESS AND ATTENDANCE: We collect student attendance, grades, surveys, as well as participation in school-sponsored extra-curricular activities to better server our students’ needs to help them be successful.

WHO NEEDS ACCESS TO OUR STUDENT DATA?

STUDENTS: To make informed decisions about class programs, students need feedback on their progress

PARENTS: To help your children to succeed, Parents and Guardians need access to your child’s education data.

TEACHERS: Understanding when students are thriving with specific concepts and when the need more support is paramount to the success of our students and programs.

SCHOOL OFFICIALS and community members need to understand our school performance to know which school recourses are being allocated effectively.

OUR EDUCATION DATA IS PROTECTED:

We follow federal and Colorado department of education privacy laws and adhere to the privacy security policies. The federal “Family Education Rights & Privacy Act, “FERPA”, protect parent rights to their children’s education records and personal identification information. Under FERPA, our curriculum and cloud storage vendors cannot use, sell, or allow partner access to our education records in any way that is not authorized by the school district. We install web filtering on our school networks and student computers & tablets to protect our students from inappropriate content and to comply with CIPA: The Child Internet Protection Act. Additionally, the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, “COPPA”, prevents child-directed websites and apps from collecting certain personal data from anyone under 13 of age without parental permissions. Del Norte Schools may occasionally provide consent on behalf of parents when student information is collected for our schools’ exclusive use and for no commercial purpose.