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Saturday, April 20, 2013

John White’s Hidden Memorandum of Understanding with InBloom | deutsch29

John White’s Hidden Memorandum of Understanding with InBloom | deutsch29:


John White’s Hidden Memorandum of Understanding with InBloom

Today I read an article in the Monroe News-Star declaring that Louisiana State Superintendent John White had decided to nix his (it is his, not BESE’s) controversial, formerly-clandestine agreement to share student data with InBloom.
InBloom is a data collection front for the likes of Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch:
The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months. When it was ready, the Gates Foundation turned the database over to a newly created nonprofit, inBloom Inc, which will run it.
The ultimate purpose of this database is to serve education corporations already making millions off of the systematic privatization of America’s public schools:
Local education officials retain legal control over their students’ information. But federal law allows them to