A dozen New York City parents filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state from uploading student records to the inBloom database... a nonprofit funded by the Gates Foundation... The suit was filed against the state Board of Regents and Education Commissioner John King, who have faced tremendous criticism in recent months over their database plans, student testing tied to the Common Core learning standards, and other state initiatives.Read more here.
...the lawsuit is based upon a claim that the disclosure of any child’s identifiable data without parental consent, as the Education Department plans to do, violates the state Personal Privacy Protection Law. The law, passed in 1984, spells out the conditions under which under what conditions state agencies can collect personal information about citizens. It disallows state agencies from sharing identifiable information without consent.
This blog is a place to keep current with news regarding Common Core and SBAC without having to wade through the editorials inherent in Facebook groups. I try my best to do the wading for you; all links are actually relevant to parents in Connecticut. I also belong to a closed Facebook group of Connecticut teachers, and sometimes share things I read there. Once in a while I share my own experiences, and occasionally I do manage to connect some dots, or at least raise some pertinent questions.
November 25, 2013
New York City parents sue to protect their kids' privacy
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