Thursday, June 6, 2019

SOCCCD's Student Information System implements AB 1266



Today, faculty and staff received notice that the district's Student Information System had adjusted its protocols to be in compliance with AB 1266, the "School Success and Opportunity Act" which was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in 2013 and has been in effect since January 1, 2014.

As a result MySite will now only display students' preferred names (if selected), in lieu of their legal names. All names will be classified under "student name." This will extend to Canvas, Sherpa and other areas. Faculty can check out their rosters for the fall now to see the changes - which are pretty much unnoticeable, which is as it should be. The option for "preferred name" is now vanished.  There is only one: student name.

This is a very welcome change, especially for our trans students.

To understand why AB  matters so much, check out this two minute testimony by 16-year-old Ashton Lee, given in front of the Senate Education Committee in  October 2013.






6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Progress.

Anonymous said...

What took them so long?

Anonymous said...

The masters tools won't take apart the master's house... or is that only something you say to students when you want a catchall reason to be dismissive and condescending? Huh.

Everyone else is the little red hen and you don't wanna make the bread, you dont wanna see the bread even getting made, you just wanna eat it. You just want that little virtue signal at the end of any lgbt related effort to show what a great person you are but you never supported the community when the effort was still in the works. That's activism, folks.

I'm just surprised Bauer even let this be on here considering his choice words he has to say about trans women and students who don't pass as their target gender.

Roy Bauer said...

6:46, WTF?
Folks, we appear to have a troll.

Anonymous said...

Receipts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-D6PiirkQrJxza6sUsHsHb6dL9-l4XXuI-40jj8r2Ko
I'd rather be a troll than a transphobic piece of shit who picks on 18 year olds for fun. Just saying.

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