School district leaves data open via Wi-Fi network: The school district set up the network first, partly at parents' instigation it sounds like, and then later established a security policy. The article shows how they failed to meet federal requirements for privacy and so forth, and the administration is obviously spinning madly so they don't get charged or fined.
What is particularly distressing is the abysmal grammar used by the school officials in the quoted text. If Palo Alto's best and brightest are being taught by such incoherent speakers we should fear the future