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New state requirements that took effect in 2025 — led by Ohio's October 24 compliance date — are turning app vetting from a best practice into a legal deadline.
Privacy evaluations catch bad policies and missing encryption, but they cannot see what a vendor's servers actually do — and districts keep expecting them to.
LTI and One Roster are the plumbing that decides whether a new app works on day one or eats a semester of technician time.
Early district reports on AI tutoring tools show real engagement gains, uneven learning effects, and a support burden vendors rarely quote.
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.