NYC Public School Parents: Data Privacy Day: send a message to the NY State Ed today, demanding that your child's data NOT be shared with private corporations

NYC Public School Parents: Data Privacy Day: send a message to the NY State Ed today, demanding that your child's data NOT be shared with private corporations:

Data Privacy Day: send a message to the NY State Ed today, demanding that your child's data NOT be shared with private corporations

by Leonie Haimson

Dear Parents:  Today is Data Privacy Day.    Here are some questions you can ask your school about your child’s private education records.

Unfortunately, we already know that NY State intends to share the most private information from your child’s educational records with the Shared Learning Collaborative, a project of the Gates Foundation, without your consent, who in turn intends to hand it over to private for-profit companies.

This information is supposed to include your child’s name, test scores, grades, disciplinary and attendance records, special education status and much more. The information will be put on a data cloud run by Amazon.com, with a system built by Wireless Generation, owned by Rupert Murdoch and run by Joel Klein.  Here is a fact sheet about this issue. 

Please email State Ed Commissioner John Kingtoday, with a copy to Chancellor Walcott and Stacey Childress of the Gates Foundation, demanding that your child’s information NOT be shared with ANY third