EdLaw
Poland — Prawo oświatowe (art. 44a, 108a, 125a)
The Act of 14 December 2016 — Prawo oświatowe is Poland's framework education act. Curated here are its technology-facing provisions: the ministry's education platform (art. 44a), CCTV monitoring in schools (art. 108a) and the remote-learning regime (art. 125a).
Fact text is Polish (authentic language); this README is curation.
Applicability to EdTech
- The state platform (Zintegrowana Platforma Edukacyjna) is statutory: the minister provides schools an information tool with named security duties (access protection, integrity, accountability — art. 44a ust. 1); directors issue logins to pupils, parents and teachers (ust. 2–3); the statute enumerates exactly which pupil and teacher data the tool processes — including live image and voice in audiovisual transmission and pupil-created content (ust. 7), fed from the SIO under art. 60a of the SIO act (ust. 8). The former Portal Edukacji i Nauki (art. 44b–44d) is repealed in the current consolidation.
- Remote learning is a statutory duty, not an option: when classes are suspended for more than two days (safety, temperature, epidemiological threat, other extraordinary events — art. 125a ust. 1), the school must organise "zajęcia z wykorzystaniem metod i technik kształcenia na odległość" from the third day (art. 125a ust. 2). Permitted channels are the art. 44a tool or any electronic-communication means linking teacher, pupil and parent — the slot a third-party platform fills (art. 125a ust. 3).
- The school statute governs the tooling: each school's statut must set the detailed organisation of remote classes, including which information-and-communication technologies teachers use, safe-participation conditions, screen-time alternation, and how attendance is confirmed, "uwzględniając konieczność poszanowania sfery prywatności ucznia" and the pupil's hardware/software constraints (art. 125a ust. 7) — privacy-respecting attendance checks are a statutory design requirement for platforms.
- CCTV has hard limits: monitoring may not cover classrooms and other listed spaces except under strict conditions (art. 108a ust. 3); recordings are purpose-bound with maximum three-month retention (art. 108a ust. 4) and destruction after (ust. 5); 14-day advance information, written notice to staff, visible signage (ust. 6–8); it must not become staff-performance surveillance (ust. 2).
- Ordinance layer: the minister's rozporządzenie under art. 125a ust. 6 details remote-class organisation (art. 125a ust. 6).
Contents
| Document | Covers |
|---|---|
| NARZEDZIA-CYFROWE.md | Prawo oświatowe art. 44a (narzędzie informatyczne/ZPE), art. 108a (monitoring wizyjny), art. 125a (kształcenie na odległość) |
Scope note: pupil-data processing sits mostly in the System Informacji Oświatowej act and executive ordinances, and graduate-career monitoring in art. 26b — add them when a Poland deployment question needs that level.
Key obligations at a glance
- Remote classes mandatory from day 3 of any suspension longer than two days (art. 125a ust. 2); opting out needs the organ prowadzący's consent and a positive supervisory opinion (ust. 5).
- School statute must name the ICT used and privacy-respecting attendance confirmation (ust. 7).
- CCTV: no classrooms, 3-month retention cap, information and signage duties (art. 108a).
Enforcement
Kuratorzy oświaty (pedagogical supervision) and the organ prowadzący for school operations; data-protection aspects answer to PUODO.
Licence
The corpus reproduces selected articles of the ustawa Prawo oświatowe from the tekst jednolity in Dziennik Ustaw, served by the Sejm ELI API.
Polish copyright law places normative acts and official materials outside copyright. Art. 4 ustawy o prawie autorskim i prawach pokrewnych (ISAP — tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2025 poz. 24, read 2026-10-01 in the official PDF served by the Sejm ELI API) provides: "Nie stanowią przedmiotu prawa autorskiego: 1) akty normatywne lub ich urzędowe projekty; 2) urzędowe dokumenty, materiały, znaki i symbole;"
Conditions: none attach to the statute text, because no copyright subsists in it. The corpus still identifies its source: each fact document names its source in its opening citation line and in its Meta section, and Sources here links the official text (ISAP and the Sejm ELI API). The changes (the selection of provisions, the Markdown layout and the added anchors) are described in Meta. The corpus does not claim that the publisher endorses it, and only the officially promulgated text is authentic.
Related
- UODO — the Polish GDPR-implementation act (PUODO, public-sector fine caps)
- EU GDPR — governs the personal-data processing in both articles