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Federal database to include your children? | toteachornototeach

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Federal database to include your children?

by Bob Unruh

Regulations creating repository for ‘every
public school student’s personal information’

The federal government is laying the foundation for a national database that could include all of the personal details of every student in every public school in every state, warns a report by the leading homeschool advocacy group.
The report, compiled by Will Estrada and Katie Tipton of the Home School Legal Defense Association, points out that a “slew of new federal incentives and federally funded data models have spurred states to monitor students’ early years, performance in college, and success in the workforce by following ‘individuals systematically and efficiently across state lines.’
The authors “believe that this expansion of state databases is laying the foundation for a