(TNS) — At least one Washtenaw County school district is bracing to join a federal class-action lawsuit against the K-12, cloud-based software provider whose systems were breached, exposing tens of millions of students’ data, several months ago.
News that hackers may have accessed private information managed by PowerSchool hit school districts across the country and in Michigan at the end of December 2024, reaching the public at large in early January. The vendor is utilized contractually on a consortium basis in schools around Washtenaw County.
On Monday, Nov. 3, Chelsea School Board members passed a resolution to join the lawsuit launched last spring in U.S. District Court in Southern California…