Who do you believe: Childless carpetbagger John White or a Louisiana public school parent?
In response to our campaign to lobby our legislators and Governor to put a leash on John White’s reckless and illegal privacy violations, John White sent out a letter to local superintendents. This letter tries to mischaracterize our objections and goals, while pointedly ignoring the underlying issues and facts. I will set the record straight on a point by point (between the lines) basis so you can be the judge who to “believe.”
As the recent investigation and federal probe into Bobby Jindal’s DHH head, Bruce Greenstein, shows, government agencies and their appointed heads are more than capable of performing illegal acts, and lying about them.
For an official copy of this letter please refer here:
http://www.louisianabelieves.com/lde/uploads/21058.pdf
A copy has been preserved by this blog as evidence. LDOE has a nasty habit of “losing” all their incriminating or revealing memos and files and we wouldn’t want that to happen here.
As the recent investigation and federal probe into Bobby Jindal’s DHH head, Bruce Greenstein, shows, government agencies and their appointed heads are more than capable of performing illegal acts, and lying about them.
For an official copy of this letter please refer here:
http://www.louisianabelieves.com/lde/uploads/21058.pdf
A copy has been preserved by this blog as evidence. LDOE has a nasty habit of “losing” all their incriminating or revealing memos and files and we wouldn’t want that to happen here.
LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
April 2,2013
Dear Superintendent,
Over the past few weeks, you may have received communications expressing concern over the inBloom data storage system. I wanted to take a moment to clarify some misinformation, and I wanted to reiterate the state’s continuing commitment to student privacy.By sharing every last detail about your children with out of state, unaccountable data vendors we can guarantee all students and parents should expect zero privacy. Whereas before most of this data was housed internally, we