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SchoolStatus Receives Data Privacy Certification from 1EdTech

By SchoolStatus • 3 min

Leading EdTech platform SchoolStatus affirms its secure data privacy and usage policies with Data Privacy certification from 1EdTech.

RIDGELAND, Miss. – March 20, 2024 – SchoolStatus, a leading K-12 success platform, has received a Data Privacy certification from 1EdTech. With this certification, SchoolStatus demonstrates its commitment to maintaining high data security and privacy standards for its products.

1EdTech is a non-profit educational technology community whose mission is to power learner potential by fostering the evolution of an open, trusted, and innovative education technology and digital credentials ecosystem. SchoolStatus is now a trusted Education Technology partner with 1EdTech.

As Jason DeRoner, Chief Product Officer at SchoolStatus, put it:

“As an education technology company committed to creating better student outcomes, data security and privacy are top concerns. Our platform is designed to give educators a trusted resource for school-home communications, attendance monitoring and intervention, and educator coaching and success. These goals require a persistent focus on secure data practices in everything that we do.”

In order to achieve 1EdTech certification in Data Privacy, SchoolStatus demonstrated that their products meet stringent requirements for secure storage and handling of sensitive data. SchoolStatus ensures proper data privacy on its platform with secure login and access permissions for educators who use the platform every day. They also offer a secure communications portal where families can engage in private dialogue with teachers. And with robust and secure groups and caseloads, educators and staff only have access to the appropriate data at any given time.

As a K-12 success platform that helps educators perform school-home communication, monitor and manage attendance, and conduct district-internal coaching and growth planning, SchoolStatus considers data privacy critical to its mission. Going forward, SchoolStatus will continue to demonstrate exceptional care towards data privacy and security across all of its products.

About SchoolStatus

SchoolStatus provides data and communication solutions to support student achievement through integrated communications, attendance management, and teacher effectiveness. Its solutions portfolio includes SchoolStatus Connect, SchoolStatus Attend, SchoolStatus Boost, and Smore. The solutions support a K-12 ecosystem that utilizes data-informed communications and workflow automation to make educators’ lives easier while improving student outcomes. With more than 200 million successful family-teacher interactions, and millions of users across all product lines, SchoolStatus drives meaningful results for districts across the US.

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SchoolStatus is a unified K-12 platform that enables districts and schools to engage more families and improve attendance with our easy-to-use communications hub and data-driven attendance solutions. We support an integrated and impactful educational experience, from district leadership to families at home. With more than two hundred million successful school-home interactions, and millions of users, SchoolStatus drives meaningful results for districts and schools across the US.