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John Eppolito is a Stop Common Core activist in Nevada. He asked a couple of months ago to see what data was collected on his four children by the Nevada State Department of Education. The cost for him to receive that information is staggering. Below is the email thread between him and Judy Osgood, the Public Information Officer with the
Nevada Department of Education(published with his permission):
From: Judy Osgood
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 4:36 PM
To: ‘John Eppolito’
Subject: SBAC – SDLS
Mr. Eppolito,
The Department’s Director of Information Technology, Glenn Myer, has reviewed your request to receive reports of data for each of your four children that is contained in the SLDS. He has estimated that the cost will be approximately $10,194, which represents at least three solid weeks (120 hours) of dedicated staff time (billed at $84.95/hour) to build, test and validate a new application that will be able to display individual student data in a readable format. Payment of this fee must be made in full before work can begin.
Please understand that the primary purpose of the Department of Education’s SLDS is to support required state and federal reporting, funding of local education agencies, education accountability, and public reporting. The system currently is not capable of responding to the type of individual student data request you have presented. Thus, the extraordinary
John Eppolito is a Stop Common Core activist in Nevada. He asked a couple of months ago to see what data was collected on his four children by the Nevada State Department of Education. The cost for him to receive that information is staggering. Below is the email thread between him and Judy Osgood, the Public Information Officer with the Nevada Department of Education(published with his permission):