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School board approves letter to AG for PowerSchool data breach

Posted on February 15, 2025 by Dissent

Caleb M. Soptelean, The Sanford Herald, N.C. reports:

The Lee County Schools Board of Education has requested that the North Carolina Attorney General pursue legal action against PowerSchool over a nationwide data breach that occurred late last year.

The school board voted unanimously to send a letter to the AG, which was requested by board member Alan Rummel during their Tuesday, Feb. 11 meeting.

[…]

According to Public Information Officer James Alverson, LCS began using PowerSchool in 2013 when NCDPI began using it as the statewide student information system. LCS stopped using PowerSchool on June 30, 2024 when it started using Infinite Campus as part of a pilot program.

Read more at Yahoo! News.

So they were no longer a customer of PowerSchool at the time of the breach. But what exactly would be the basis for the state’s lawsuit against PowerSchool?


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