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  • The mission of the Washington County Board of Education is “Excellence in Education” for all students. The district seeks to provide programs and learning venues to promote academic achievement, career technical opportunities and holistic growth for each student.

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  • PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident - Update

    TO: Our Community

    FROM: Washington County Schools

    SUBJECT: An Update from Washington County Schools on the PowerSchool Cybersecurity Incident

    Dear families and educators of the Washington County Schools community—

    As we previously communicated, PowerSchool – a cloud-based software vendor used by Washington County Schools – recently experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to certain information in the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS).

    We are reaching out to share more information and next steps that we recently received directly from PowerSchool:

    • Identity Protection and Credit Monitoring Services: PowerSchool has engaged Experian, a trusted credit reporting agency, to offer two years of complimentary identity protection services for all students and educators whose information from our PowerSchool SIS was involved. This offer will also include two years of complimentary credit monitoring services for all adult students and educators whose information was involved.

    •     Notification to Individuals Involved: Starting in the next few weeks, in collaboration with Experian, PowerSchool will provide notice to students (or their parents / guardians if the student is under 18) and educators whose information was involved, as well as a phone number to answer any questions you may have about the incident. The notice will include the identity protection and credit monitoring services offer (as applicable).

    •     As soon as PowerSchool learned of the incident, they engaged cybersecurity response protocols and mobilized senior leadership and third-party cybersecurity experts to conduct a forensic investigation of the scope of the incident and to monitor for signs of information misuse. PowerSchool is not aware of any identity theft attributable to this incident.

    In the meantime, I encourage you to visit https://www.powerschool.com/security/sis-incident/ for up-to-date information on the cybersecurity incident. We care deeply about the welfare of our Washington County Schools’ families and will continue to do everything we can to support you. Thank you for the important role you play in our community and your shared commitment to putting our students first.

    Sincerely,
    Curtis Kirkland
    Superintendent, Washington County Schools

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  • Notice of Cybersecurity Incident

    On January 7, 2025, Washington County Schools was informed of a cybersecurity incident involving PowerSchool, the education software provider that manages our district’s student information system. On December 28, 2024, PowerSchool discovered unauthorized access to certain customer information through its PowerSource portal.

     The company has assured us that the breach has been contained, with no evidence of ongoing unauthorized activity or disruptions to operations. However, some personal information, including names, addresses, and email addresses, may have been affected. Importantly, social security numbers were not involved.

     In response, PowerSchool has enhanced its security measures, deactivated compromised credentials, and is offering credit monitoring and identity protection services to certain impacted individuals. Washington County Schools is working closely with PowerSchool and the Alabama State Department of Education to address this issue and ensure affected individuals are informed.

     We will share additional updates as new information becomes available.

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  • Home Portal

     ~ Parents ~
    You can access the Home Portal by clicking on PowerSchool Student and Parent Sign-in under Quick Links.

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  • Student Achievement Data

    In order to comply with the accountability law, we have to announce that all achievement data for Washington County Schools may be found at www.alabamaachieves.org, under Reports & Data, School Performance, Proficiency, 2023-2024 ELA Assessment, 2023-2024 Math Assessment, 2023-2024 Science Assessment.  

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  • Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

    The Child Internet Protection Act of 2000 requires local school boards receiving federal funds to hold a public discussion of the network security features that protects students from inappropriate behaviors and websites. The Washington County Board of Education will have an open discussion of our protection features at the regular Board meeting Tuesday, February 27, 2018 beginning at 10:00 AM. The public is invited to participate in the discussion.

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