PowerSchool, Chicago Public Schools to settle student data privacy lawsuit for $17 million The education software company PowerSchool and Chicago Public Schools have agreed to pay $17.25 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit that accused them of violating students’ privacy by eavesdropping on their communications, court documents show. The plaintiff, a student identified as Q.J., on Monday asked an Illinois federal judge to approve the proposed settlement and end what the motion called a “first-of-its-kind action that arises out of the alleged unlawful wiretapping of, and eavesdropping upon, school students while they used school-mandated education technology products.” The lawsuit argued that PowerSchool Holdings, its subsidiary Hobsons, Inc. and the analytics firm Heap Inc.…