ROPE Report Short - What Is The PPRA? Can It Stop School Surveys?

What is the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA)? The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) applies to the programs and activities of a state education agency (SEA), local education agency (LEA), or other recipient of funds under any program funded by the U.S. Department of Education. It governs the administration to students of a survey, analysis, or evaluation that concerns one or more of the following eight protected areas: 

political affiliations or beliefs of the student or the student’s parent; 

mental or psychological problems of the student or the student’s family; 

sex behavior or attitudes; 

illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior; 

critical appraisals of other individuals with whom respondents have close family relationships; 

legally recognized privileged or analogous relationships, such as those of lawyers, physicians, and ministers; 

religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or student’s parent; 

or income (other than that required by law to determine eligibility for participation in a program or for receiving financial assistance under such program). 

PPRA also concerns marketing surveys and other areas of student privacy, parental access to information, and the administration of certain physical examinations to minors. The rights under PPRA transfer from the parents to a student who is 18 years old or an emancipated minor under state law. https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/faq/wha... 

How are parents being kept from notifications for surveys that ask about all these things and more? Watch and find out!

ROPE Report Short - What Are The Election Influences In Your Neighborhood?

Jenni and Michael talked about Dark Money and other election influences during their March 27th edition of ROPE Report Live. Jenni has talked a lot about dark money over the last couple years, but there are so many other things that influence our elections today - not only is dark money paying for push cards/mailers, television, radio and social media, but also text messaged "push" polls, which attempt to "push" you into voting for a candidate based on poll questions, text messages asking you to "thank" candidates who are also running for Senate Pro Temp and individuals and organizations spending multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars on candidates across all kinds of elections. 

In this clip, Jenni talks a bit about the federal law that prevents the use of foreign money in elections. We have a huge marijuana industry now in Oklahoma - and in fact, we're the number one state in terms of illegal exportation of marijuana. Where is that money going? Could it be funding dark money social welfare organizations? How do we know dark money isn't coming from foreign sources? Shouldn't we care?