Keeping Students' Data Safe

Route Fifty: For more than two decades, David Couch has steered the Kentucky Department of Education’s technology policy, eventually as chief information officer and associate commissioner of education. He is the longest-serving state-level CIO of K-12 education in the country.

On his watch, Kentucky was the first state to hit multiple technology milestones in schools, starting by connecting every district to high-speed internet in 1995. Twenty years later, Kentucky was the first state to meet a national goal of providing 100 kilobytes of fibered internet access per student.

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