Important summary from Superintendent Mitchell of concerns with "data creep" including sample resolution and opt-out letter to inBloom Inc.
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| Dr. Ken Mitchell, Superintendent of S. Orangetown |
A growing number of Superintendents and school boards are on record, protesting Commissioner King's plan to share an extensive amount of personal student data with inBloom Inc., and via inBloom with vendors -- without parent consent.
Many districts have now returned unspent Race to the Top funds, are refusing to sign up for the data dashboards that will be linked to the inBloom cloud, and are writing directly to inBloom's CEO, Iwan Streichenberg, citing a provision in the state contract allowing district opt out and demanding their student data be deleted.
Below is an explanation of some of the many risks involved in sharing all this highly sensitive data with inBloom, as well as unanswered questions about the "data creep", with more and more personal highly student demanded by the State Education Department. The summary was prepared under the direction of Dr. Ken Mitchell, the Superintendent of South Orangetown and President of the Lower Hudson Council