Compliance
School CIOs and CTOs must navigate a complex—and growing—landscape of regulations and compliance requirements.
Growing legislative requirements make compliance more important—and more challenging—than ever.
Compliance is complicated
Non-compliance can cause real issues for schools:
- Fines: Many regulations come with financial penalties for non-compliance.
- Loss of funding: Notably, critical funding can be on the line.
- Security incidents: Many regulations are there for a reason, and non-compliance can create security risk.
- Bad publicity: Schools want to be in the news for great outcomes, not for failing to follow regulations.
How Lightspeed Can Help
Our solutions are built to help school IT leaders easily comply with growing body of legislation and regulations. We provide the visibility to highlight risks, then the controls to lock them down!
Student Data Privacy
In addition to GDPR, countries and schools have their own student data privacy regulations. It’s a lot to stay on top of, especially with various users across the district using apps that haven’t even been vetted.
First, Lightspeed gives you the visibility into what’s in use; then we make it easy to manage privacy compliance, DPAs, assess privacy policy changes, and more! Once you have a view of the privacy status and risks, you can block the app or approve it.
Accessibility
As learning has become more and more digitised, accessibility concerns have moved beyond physical spaces and are now focused on ensuring websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them.
Lightspeed simplifies compliance with accessibility mandates, VPAT requirements, and district accessibility goals with comprehensive insight into all the tools in use, and reports on which ones are and are not accessible. With Lightspeed, you can easily move toward full accessibility compliance with a trend view of progress toward 100% accessibility-certified apps.
Safety
The mental health crisis and increasing school violence trends have led to regulations aimed at increasing school safety and student wellbeing.
Student and school safety compliance starts with KCSIE, expands to your school or organisation Acceptable Use and Digital Citizenship policies, and then extends to country and local regulations aimed at being comprehensive and proactive around student safety, online and offline. We can help with all of it.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the top concern for district technology leaders; regulations aim to fortify school networks and counter the growing target on education.
Whether the regulations come from cybersecurity insurance companies, local jurisdictions, or your own school or organisation, Lightspeed can help drive compliance with a view into rogue and risky apps—and the ability to block them.
Records & Retention
Two primary trends around records and retention are a requirement for parents to have visibility into apps and data, and requirements around deletion of student records.
Lightspeed makes it easy to publish up-to-date app lists for parent visibility and shows which apps in use across your district are collecting student data.
AI Compliance
AI is the hottest topic in edtech, and that has led to a growing body of government guidance on appropriate and acceptable use of AI within schools.
Lightspeed helps ensure compliance with these guidelines with the ability to control what access students and staff have to AI tools; reporting on AI use; and visibility into classroom use of AI.
Compliance is hard. We make it easier.
See for yourself with a free 30-day App Audit
App Audit includes:
- Comprehensive review of apps in use over 30 days
- Report on top apps with data privacy risks (SDPC-aligned)
- Review of apps without accessibility/VPAT compliance
- Analysis of redundant/unused apps for cost savings
We're compliant, to keep you compliant
Learn more about our Compliance products
Related Resources
We have your state regulations covered
California
AB 1394 – We help report on and monitor use of AI, as well as alerting upon explicit images
California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (AB 2273) – We ensure all your tools meet privacy requirements
LCAP – We help you meet requirements, stakeholder engagement, and effective planning to improve student outcomes
Colorado
Florida
House Bill 1467 – We help you meet the accountability and transparency requirements by reporting on apps, sharing public app lists, and blocking non-compliant tools
House Bill 1557 – We make it easy to block unapproved tools
Georgia
SB 351 – We help you adopt and enforce policies regarding the safe use of social media by students.
Illinois
Illinois SOPPA – We can help meet the stringent requirements student data privacy, transparency, and parental control.
Maryland
Maryland
Massachusetts
HB 83 – Our app reporting and public app lists can help you meet the requirements of the Massachusetts data privacy protection act
Chapter 177 of the Acts of 2022 – We can help promote mental health and well-being.
New York
Ed Law 2D – We report on app student data privacy and make it easy to share a public app list
Senate Bill 3114A – We report on all apps in use, including whether they have a VPAT
Senate Bill 380 – (in committee) We can help identify issues like harassment and cyberbullying
Ohio
SB29 – Our public app list meets the requirement to report on apps in use. Our Parent Portal meets (changing) requirements for parent notification.
Oregon
Safe to Learn Act – We help enhance student safety by identifying threats such as bullying, harassment, physical violence, and suicide, and promoting collaborative response to incidents
SB 82 (Andi’s Act) – We can help meet the requirements around suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention
Texas
SCOPE Act (HB 18) – We can help with safety requirements, student data privacy, and parental empowerment
SB 1893 – We make it easy to report on and block access to TikTok and other prohibited apps
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