My San Antonio
Northside Independent School District plans to track students next
year on two of its campuses using technology implanted in their student
identification cards in a trial that could eventually include all 112 of
its schools and all of its nearly 100,000 students.
District officials said the Radio Frequency Identification System
(RFID) tags would improve safety by allowing them to locate students —
and count them more accurately at the beginning of the school day to
help offset cuts in state funding, which is partly based on attendance.-[Full Article]
