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Monday, March 18, 2013

NYC Public School Parents: Community Education District 2's Response to the C4E Plan FY 13

NYC Public School Parents: Community Education District 2's Response to the C4E Plan FY 13:


Community Education District 2's Response to the C4E Plan FY 13

The following letter is from the Community Education Council District 2, regarding the Contracts for Excellence Proposed Plan FY 13: 


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inBloom's student and teacher data screenshots

by Molly

Thanks to our work and the advocacy of parents and teachers across the city, many parents now know that inBloom, Inc, the Gates-funded organization, is being paid to hold and share student (and teacher) personally-identifiable data with for-profit vendors (read more about inBloom here). However, most people don't know how personal and confidential this data is. 

InBloom, Inc. has a sample "sandbox" segment on their web page meant "for developers"to show them what data will be made available to them to build their software "tools" around.

Under the “medium” data set, we find that student names, addresses, emails, latitude and longitude of their homes and schools, phone numbers, test scores, grades, race, economic status, photos, detailed disciplinary records, special education services and medical conditions are all included.

Check out the screen shots below to see more. 

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