TEC Student Data Privacy Alliance

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Fast-track your district's ability to acquire signed student data privacy agreements for all of your digital tools

The TEC Student Data Privacy Alliance has developed a successful collaborative model to provide member school districts with the administrative and legal support required to negotiate privacy terms with software vendors.

Our process is simple and affordable. By joining our alliance, you can jump-start student data protection with access to over 1,700 pre-negotiated vendor-signed data privacy agreements (DPAs). Begin by identifying the applications your district uses that collect student Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and then leverage the existing agreements we provide. If we don't have a DPA for an application your district uses, we will collaborate with the vendor in an attempt to secure one. Our goal is to handle all the necessary work so you can rest assured that your student data is being managed securely and safely.

We utilize a multi-state version of the Student Data Privacy Consortium’s National Data Privacy Agreement (NDPA), which articulates the vendor duties and responsibilities required to protect student data in compliance with all applicable federal and state privacy statutes, including FERPA, PPRA, and COPPA. Our multi-state Alliance provides significant leverage in our capacity to negotiate with vendors of all sizes.

Our team uploads all vendor-signed DPAs to the Student Data Privacy Consortium’s Resource Registry, ensuring immediate and exclusive access for our TEC SDPA member districts.

Direct Services

We offer direct services to these states for an annual fee based on student enrollment. The fee is calculated at $1.00 per student, with an annual maximum fee of $4999.

  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • Vermont
  • Maine
  • Rhode Island
  • Virginia

Example: If your most recent October enrollment is 1,500 students, your annual TEC SDPA fee would be $1,500. If your enrollment is 8,500 students, your annual fee would be $4,999 - our cap.

Partnership Programs

We provide our services to the following states through partnership relationships. Contact the appropriate partner for information about pricing.

Missouri

MOREnet and TEC have entered into a partnership. Interested Missouri districts should contact their MOREnet representative to learn more.

New York

TEC has established a relationship with the New York State Department of Education and the 12 Regional Information Centers (RICs). Interested NY districts should contact their RIC for more information.

Ohio

Learn21 and TEC have entered into a partnership. Ohio districts eager to learn more about this collaboration should get in touch with their Learn21 representative for further details.

Tennessee

TETA and TEC have entered into a partnership. Tennessee districts eager to learn more about this collaboration should get in touch with their TETA representative for further details.

How do I sign up?

  • Step 1

    Click Sign Up and complete our automated enrollment form.

     

  • Step 2

    You will receive an automated reply email that confirms your enrollment and provides a copy of the electronically endorsed TEC SDPA Service Agreement.

    It also includes the name and contact information of your SDPA Onboarding Specialist and the next steps, including a 30 minute on-boarding Zoom session that will provide you with a brief tutorial about our process and answer any questions you might have.

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What To Expect...

There may be some vendors you use that have already signed DPAs with TEC. We'll give you access to our one-page "Exhibit E's" to e-sign. This allows your district to piggyback on our DPAs. You're all set!

Frequently Asked Questions

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Don’t see your state listed? Other Questions?

Ramah Hawley

Director

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About Our Affiliation

SDPC Member

The Education Cooperative Student Data Privacy Alliance (TEC SDPA) uses a separate organization, the Student Data Privacy Consortium's (SDPC) Resource Registry as the platform for posting vendor agreements. SDPC is the leader in addressing student data privacy concerns and offers school districts access to many free resources including:

  • SDPC Resource Registry
  • National DPA
  • Access to curated PD resources
  • Resources for internal training
  • Sample policies & procedures

Testimonials

The Education Cooperative Student Data Privacy Alliance (SDPA) has been instrumental in helping our district take meaningful action in its effort to ensure the security and privacy of student data in an era where online resources have become indispensable. The TEC SDPA has solved two of the most pressing challenges related to this important topic. First, TEC has provided the legal and administrative support that individual districts typically lack. Second, the collective influence of member districts, combined with standardized vendor contract language, has resulted in hundreds of signed agreements, with more being signed every day. Working independently, our district simply does not have the capacity to achieve such results. Prior to joining the TEC SDPA, student data privacy was a daunting task. Today, we have made significant progress towards our goal of achieving 100% compliance with state and federal privacy regulations.

Steve Ouellette

Director of Technology, Learning, and Innovation
Westwood Public Schools, Massachusetts

TEC has already secured MANY agreements... for the Maine districts using their services and I've heard that they continue to add more each day (...it's pretty amazing). They are an incredible service and if you are still considering having assistance in managing your student data privacy agreements, I strongly urge you to consider them. As a technology director, I can tell you that they are a "life saver"!

Thomas P. Martellone, Ed.S.

Director of Innovation & Instructional Technology
Lexington, MA
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