Confidently know in seconds whether any EdTech tool is safe for your district to use, and compliant with AI, privacy, and accessibility laws

Most tools solve one slice. SDPC checks whether a vendor signed a contract. Lightspeed and LearnPlatform started as usage or curriculum systems with privacy bolted on as an add-on. EdPrivacy runs the full workflow in one place: privacy scoring, AI risk, accessibility, contracts, teacher requests, and public approved lists. It also judges what a tool actually does with student data instead of whether a contract exists, so a safe tool without a signed agreement can still get approved.

Yes. Every score comes from a review of the vendor's privacy policy, terms of use, and security documents, checked against the exact data points the law requires. There's also an operational check that catches what a policy hides, like ad-tracking pixels or student profiling that contradicts what the vendor claims on paper. A person verifies and audits every score, so it isn't a machine guessing on its own. The source policies stay linked on each app if you ever want to read them yourself.

Yes. Guidance is jurisdiction-based, so a district in New York gets a different guidance statement than one in Illinois, matched to each state's requirements. EdPrivacy tracks privacy and AI laws across all 50 states and updates a tool's score when a law or a vendor policy changes, then flags any district using that tool.

All three, scored in the same workflow. AI risk reviews check whether a vendor is transparent about AI use, whether student data trains their models, how AI handles storage and deletion, bias safeguards, and human oversight. Accessibility reviews look for a VPAT or ACR, WCAG 2.1 AA conformance, an independent evaluation, and a named accessibility contact. This matters more heading into 2027, when edtech vendors will need to meet WCAG 2.1 AA to be used in schools.

You can request it through an on-demand assessment. Provide the website link, the privacy policy URL, and the platform it runs on, then it gets vetted and added, usually within 24 to 48 hours. The library already covers 24,000+ apps, so most requests are already scored, but the on-demand system handles anything outside it.

No. EdPrivacy runs alongside what you have. Plenty of districts keep their SDPC data sharing agreements and use EdPrivacy to manage the vetting and documentation around them in a cleaner interface. Others run it next to LearnPlatform for curriculum work. You can drop the other tool or keep both.

Rollout is fast because there's nothing to install. It uses single sign-on with Google, Microsoft 365, or ClassLink, and it's a roles-based system, so teachers get request access while your admins keep vetting and approval controls. Teachers request apps, those requests route to your admin team for review, and approved tools publish to internal and public lists.

Yes. Education Framework uses SSL encryption, US-based servers, and commercially reasonable safeguards, and it collects only the information needed to run the service. It never sells or rents personal information for marketing. If you ever terminate, all personal data is deleted within a commercially reasonable time, no later than 14 business days.

Often, yes. Privacy compliance tools that vet applications and support FERPA, COPPA, and state requirements tend to qualify for education grants. States like California, New York, Illinois, and Missouri have dedicated funding, and new programs open regularly. EdPrivacy supplies documentation to help align a purchase with grant criteria.