A long-anticipated debate and vote is expected to take place Wednesday afternoon in the House Education Committee on an amendment to protect student privacy from increased commercial activity in schools. But my amendment will protect students and their parents from commercial marketing and research in schools that threatens student privacy and encroaches on the educational quality of the school day.
Parents have a right to know how their children are spending their time at school.
If parents do not want their children to be objects of market research firms while in school, they should have the right to say no. My bill gives parents that right.