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October 29, 2014

States Backtrack on Student Tracking Tech

Jeffrey Stinson, Stateline

Do you know where your student is? At school? On the bus? Paying for lunch in the cafeteria?

Principals in thousands of the nation’s schools know the answer because radio frequency chips are embedded in students’ ID cards, or their schools are equipped with biometric scanners that can identify portions of a...

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