Kalida Local Schools

Monitoring Notices and List of Education Websites and Applications

Annual Monitoring Notice 
Please be aware that the District, either directly or through a technology provider, is electing to generally monitor all school-issued devices (as that term is defined by R.C. 3319.325). The monitoring will include the following features: student interactions with school-issued devices (e.g., keystrokes and web-browsing activity). The District generally monitors these features for the noncommercial education purpose of instruction, technical support, exam proctoring, and/or as required by the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) enacted by the US Congress in 2000. Additionally, these features are generally monitored as a necessary precaution for preventing and/or responding to threats to life or safety.
Please note that the District has NOT implemented any new or changed monitoring services. This notice is a new requirement per Ohio Senate Bill 29 (“SB29”) that was passed by the Ohio General Assembly at the end of June 2024, was signed by Governor DeWine on July 24, 2024, and becomes effective on October 24, 2024.

Notice of Curriculum, Testing, or Assessment Technology Providers 
Required Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code §3319.326(G) 
The Kalida Local School District is committed to ensuring that technology utilized within the District’s classrooms enhances learning while prioritizing the privacy and security of our students’ information and education records.

The Kalida Local School District is required to provide annual notice to our families of the curriculum, testing, or assessment technology providers that affect a student’s educational records. Technology providers are defined to include any entity “who contracts with a school district to provide a school-issued device for student use and creates, receives or maintains educational records pursuant or incident to its contract with the district.”

By law, none of the technology providers are permitted to use student education records for commercial purposes or to share educational records except for compliance with fulfilling the contract with the Kalida Local School District.  

The Kalida Local School District engages in a thorough process of review of the technology provider contracts to work to the best of its ability to ensure the technology providers are complying state and federal laws as applicable, including, but not limited to FERPA (20 USC 1232g et al.), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA), ORC §3319.321, ORC §3319.326.  

The curriculum, testing and assessment technology providers contracted by the Kalida Local School District can be accessed via this landing page on the Kalida Local  School District’s website.

List of Educational Websites and Applications

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