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When an edtech tool shuts down mid-year: what your contract should say
Microsoft retired Flip on July 1, 2025, and the districts that recovered fastest were the ones with export, transition, and refund clauses already in the file.
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Microsoft retired Flip on July 1, 2025, and the districts that recovered fastest were the ones with export, transition, and refund clauses already in the file.

State breach-notification statutes, not federal privacy law, drive most of what a district must do in the first 72 hours after student data is exposed.