November 20, 2019
School Nutrition News: New Bill Would Require Schools to Monitor Social Media
A newly introduced federal bill seeks to heighten security at American schools by encouraging districts to adopt social media monitoring programs. The controversial practice, which uses algorithms to crawl and index public profiles of popular sites like Twitter and Facebook, has grown in popularity over the last several years, as administrators look to new and emergent technologies to heighten school safety — and potentially head off the next mass shooting. Now the Restoring, Enhancing, Securing, and Promoting Our Nation's...
