system failure impacting students parents and districts all over the world - it's a warning call
12 May 2026

This Wasn’t a Breach. It Was a System Failure. And There Is a Solution.

8,809 schools.All 50 states.60+ countries. This isn’t an edge case. It’s not “someone else’s problem.” It’s the clearest signal yet that K–12 and higher education are operating inside a data model that no longer works. A single entry point.A non-core account tier.And suddenly, millions of student records are exposed. Not because one vendor failed.Because the […]

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K12 APPLICATION APPROVAL PROCESS
January 28, 2026

Building a District Application Approval Process That Reduces Student Data Risk in K-12

K-12 districts struggle to balance teacher requests for new edtech tools with student data privacy requirements. Schools are obligated to keep student data safe, yet the moment a new app is connected is often when risk quietly spikes. A disciplined application approval process can instead become the front line of selective disclosure and data minimization, […]

App Integration•Data Governance•Data Privacy•Self Sovereignty

Interoperability in K-12 schools
November 17, 2025

Interoperability in K-12: Building a Seamless Data Ecosystem for Schools

K–12 schools use technology to enhance teaching, support students, and manage administrative functions. This technology often includes a combination of student information systems (SIS), learning management systems (LMS), edtech, communication tools, and specialized applications. Each piece of technology can help improve efficiency. However, when each of these pieces operate independently, it leads to issues like […]

App Integration•Data Privacy

secure student data exchange
November 10, 2025

Secure Student Data Exchange in K–12 Education

SchoolDay empowers districts to achieve secure, compliant data exchange across all systems with secure student data exchange that doesn't use PII.

App Integration•Data Privacy

schoolday partners with the edtech index
July 10, 2025

SchoolDay Partners with ISTE+ASCD’s EdTech Index

K-12 schools are facing increasing pressure to adopt technology that is both innovative and safe. But educators and administrators need a more effective means of navigating the crowded edtech marketplace. With its ecosystem orchestration platform, SchoolDay is focused on streamlining how schools vet, provision, and manage their apps. To further expand a school’s ability to […]

App Integration•News

zero trust data exchange ecosystem
April 3, 2025

Zero Trust Data Exchange and Ecosystem Orchestration

“Schools need to be more diligent now more than ever. A transformation to zero-trust ecosystem data governance is a must – not just an option. Zero-trust data exchange and ecosystem orchestration is the answer to cybersecurity threats for schools deploying hundreds of third-party SaaS tools. Don’t procrastinate “ – Robert Iskander At SchoolDay, we are […]

App Integration•Cybersecurity•Data Privacy

SchoolDay Collection
December 19, 2024

SchoolDay Collection: Connecting Schools with Vetted and Verified Apps

Our recently announced SchoolDay Collection is the beginning of the transformation in student data privacy. The apps featured in our SchoolDay Collection are carefully vetted and have agreed to be securely connected through SchoolDay. This means schools do not have to provide personally identifiable information (PII) to these apps for their students to be able […]

App Integration•Data Privacy

data integration best practices
May 28, 2024

Best Practices for Data Integration in K-12 Schools

Data integration has become more challenging for K-12 schools. According to K12 Dive, “there have been 102 education-related ransomware attacks in 2023 as of mid-September, compared to 116 in 2022, 107 in 2021, 116 in 2020, 104 in 2019 and 16 in 2018.” Hundreds of reported cybersecurity ransomware attacks on schools occur every year, and […]

App Integration

disrupt data exchange to address the student data privacy problem
March 7, 2024

Disrupt Data Exchange to Solve the Student Data Privacy Problem

We can no longer pretend that the student data privacy problem in K-12 schools doesn’t exist or that traditional rostering services don’t exacerbate that risk. It’s time to acknowledge that duplicating data and spreading it across multiple third-party servers is unsafe for student data privacy, staff privacy, and overall cybersecurity. There is a better way. […]

App Integration

safeguarding student data
January 11, 2024

Safeguarding Student Data

Safeguarding Student Data: Understanding the Importance of Privacy in the Digital Age In the digital age, the protection of student data has become a pressing concern. According to a study from Lightspeed Systems, more than two-thirds of education IT leaders indicate that concerns around privacy and security are more important now than they have been in […]

App Integration

secure data exchange
March 23, 2023

Is Your District at Risk of Exposing PII?

Not all data exchange solutions are equally secure. How do you know if your data exchange puts your district at risk of exposing PII? School districts have been using data exchange for years to give edtech vendors and other third parties the information they need. Unfortunately, most data exchange puts districts at risk of exposing […]

App Integration

Interoperability in schools
November 12, 2022

Interoperability: The Key to Future-Proofing Education

Interoperability is a word that didn’t really make the mainstream until the pandemic. All of a sudden, schools were forced to ramp up distribution of devices to students learning from home and scrambling to find edtech solutions to help meet educational needs beyond the classroom setting. Now, it’s one of the top priorities for districts […]

App Integration

data security and why it matters to schools, parents, and students
March 22, 2021

Data Security and Why It Matters

Data security is a challenge for everyone, but imagine that when you send your children to school, the information you provide the school district to complete enrollment for your child is then used to track their habits and build a profile on them that allows marketers to target them, if not now, then in the […]

App Integration•Data Privacy

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