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CLICK HERE FOR FULL STORY Long-awaited bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday would significantly reshape the country's most prominent student-data-privacy law, but stop short of the radical makeover that lawmakers had proposed earlier this spring. The " Student Privacy Protection Act " aims to expand the scope of student information that is protected by law, place new obligations on both educational institutions and third parties who handle that information, and ban the use of such information for direct advertising to students. It would also allow for fines of up to $1.5 million on educational institutions that violate the law.

Florida Virtual School, Other E-Schools Face Difficult Times By  Benjamin Herold  on  August 13, 2013 4:14 PM Click here for the full story Virtual schools in Florida, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee are facing enrollment challenges and tough questions. Here's a roundup of some recent news reports. Florida Facing steep enrollment declines, the  Florida Virtual School  (FLVS), the largest state-run virtual school district in the country, announced that it is laying off 177 full-time staff and 625 part-time instructors, the Associated Press  reported last week . Those cuts, together with more than 250 open positions that will remain unfilled, represent more than one-third of the group's workforce, according to a spokesperson for the school who talked with  Education Week . The cuts affect mostly adjunct teachers.

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