Fields Memorial School
Welcome to Fields Memorial School in the beautiful and quiet town of Bozrah, Connecticut. Built in 1855 by Asa Fitch, Fields Memorial School is the oldest continuously operating school building in the state of Connecticut.
We are so glad to share our community with you.
What's Happening at FMS
NEW - Our BOE Policy Subcommittee met today to review some new policies for the full Board's consideration. A link to that document can be found here.
Please check out ParentSquare for regular communications from our administration, teachers, and coaches. Links and help can be found on our Technology Services page.
The Events Calendar link above has all currently scheduled events listed.
Upcoming Meetings
January 16, 2025 Policy Subcommittee- Canceled
PowerSchool Data Breach Information
This message is to inform you of a recent cybersecurity incident that occurred on December 28, 2024, involving unauthorized access to certain student information within the PowerSchool Student Information System (SIS). You may have heard about this in the news as it affected all of PowerSchool's users across the country - and nearly 15 million students.
What Happened:
On Tuesday, January 7th, we were notified by PowerSchool of a data breach which occurred within PowerSchool’s customer support portal on December 28th.
An unauthorized party gained access to certain SIS customer data, including Bozrah data, through a compromised credential in PowerSchool’s customer support portal.
This was not a breach of our network in Bozrah - it was a breach of PowerSchool's system.
PowerSchool does not anticipate the data being shared or made public, and they believe that it has been deleted without any further replication or dissemination.
Data Impacted:
The information accessed includes data related to students, families, and educators.
Steps Taken:
PowerSchool immediately engaged their cybersecurity response team and law enforcement.
The compromised credential was deactivated, and access to the affected portal has been restricted.
An incident report from a 3rd party contracted by PowerSchool is expected by January 17th.
Support for Our Community:
PowerSchool and Bozrah are committed to providing support and transparency throughout this process.
As more information becomes available we will continue to keep you informed.
PowerSchool also informed us that the taken data primarily includes parent and student contact information with data elements such as name and address information.
Across their customer base, they have determined that for a portion of individuals, some personally identifiable information, such as social security numbers and medical information, was impacted. They are working with urgency to complete their investigation and determine whether any of this information belonging to our students was included. We do not store medical information in PowerSchool, so that data was not included for sure. Some of our students' social security numbers are in PowerSchool, so we will wait to find out if we were impacted in that way. In the meantime, we will begin removing social security numbers from PowerSchool so this is not a concern in the future.
Protecting our students is something we take seriously. With PowerSchool’s help, more information and resources (including credit monitoring or identity protection services if applicable) will be provided to you as it becomes available.
We will keep you posted as we learn more. If you have any questions or concerns please contact our IT department at LearnIT@bozrah.org.
ADA Website Compliance - Our district is evaluating our website for ADA compliance. If you have difficulty accessing our site or have questions or feedback about our ADA compliance, please contact LearnIT@bozrah.org.