Poll: 75% of school board members oppose data sharing (videos)
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The New York State School Boards Association hopes that the state Education Department will rethink plans to send student records to the inBloom data cloud after a poll showed 75 percent of school board members across the state oppose the move.
“This is one of the highest percentages we’ve gotten in terms of how board members feel about an issue,” SBA spokesman David Albert said Wednesday.
Leaders of the association shared the results with state Education Commissioner John King at a meeting Monday. Albert said King indicated that New York is contractually obligated to use inBloom for one year, but then could consider alternatives. He said King and SBA officials discussed the possibility of using the BOCES system to store and analyze data.
“We presented this as a possibility for the commissioner to explore,” Albert said. “It sounds like he will explore ways to go forward. But I think State Ed would say they can’t for the next year.”
Education Department spokesman Jonathan Burman said Wednesday that the state can terminate or extend its agreement with inBloom at any time. But doing so would violate the state’s commitments under the