NY student data to be given to limited corporation run by Gates and operated by Murdoch's Wireless Gen
This week, the Wall St Journal reported that the NY Board of Regents approved the state's sharing of student and student information with a new national student and teacher data base, to be funded by the Gates Foundation, and designed by News Corp's Wireless Generation.
All this confidential student and teacher data will be held by a private limited corporation, called the Shared Learning Collaborative LLC, with even less accountability, which in July was awarded $76.5 million by the Gates Foundation, to be spent over 7 months. According to an earlier NYT story, $44 million of this funding will go straight into the pockets of Wireless Generation, owned by Murdoch's News Corp and run by Joel Klein.
The Regents approved this project, despite the NY State