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Students who have used the college and career readiness platform Naviance in the last five years may be eligible for part of a $17.25 million settlement over data privacy.<\/p>\n
The settlement stems from a class-action lawsuit filed in August 2023 against several educational technology companies \u2014 including PowerSchool, which owns Naviance \u2014 and Chicago\u2019s public school system. The lawsuit alleged they allowed students\u2019 data to be accessed by a third-party analytics company.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefendants deny that they violated any law but have agreed to the settlement to avoid the uncertainties and expenses associated with continuing the case,\u201d according to a notice from Kroll Settlement Administration.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear how many Philadelphia-area families received the notice, but PowerSchool software \u2014 including Naviance \u2014 is widely used by K-12 schools.<\/p>\n
In Lower Merion<\/a>, some families received the notice this past weekend, district officials said<\/a>. They said the settlement, which is not expected to be finalized until August, could be divided among 10 million families.<\/p>\n To be eligible for the settlement, students need to have logged into Naviance at least once between Aug. 18, 2021, and Jan. 23, 2026. Families can find more information and submit a claim through the settlement website<\/a>.<\/p>\n The settlement is unrelated to a PowerSchool data breach reported in January 2025 that affected schools nationally, including in Lower Merion and Haverford<\/a>. A separate class-action lawsuit<\/a> has been filed over that incident, alleging it exposed confidential information of 50 million students and teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Students who have used the college and career readiness platform Naviance in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,72234],"class_list":{"0":"post-159641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lower-merion","8":"tag-lower-merion","9":"tag-lower-merion-headlines","10":"tag-lower-merion-news","11":"tag-lower-merion-township","12":"tag-naviance-lawsuit-settlement-lower-merion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}