In an unprecedented move, education officials will hand over personal student data to a new private company to create a national database for businesses that contract with public schools.<\/p>\n
Working with the city, state education officials are already uploading private information about students \u2014 their names, addresses, test scores, learning disabilities, attendance and disciplinary records \u2014 into a $100 million database called inBloom.<\/p>\n
Parents are furious that New York is joining eight other states in adopting the model without giving families a chance to opt out of sharing delicate information.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m outraged,\u201d said Karen Sprowal, 52, a stay-at-home mom. Her 9-year-old son is a fourth-grader at Public School 75 in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI send my child to school to be educated. I never agreed to have his information shared with private companies or stored in a database.\u201d<\/p>\n
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio sent a scathing letter to city and state officials protesting the move. \u201cI don\u2019t want my kids\u2019 privacy bought and sold like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
InBloom, a 3-month-old database, is funded primarily by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A division of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. built the infrastructure for the new electronic portal.<\/p>\n
The state spent $50 million in federal grants to partner with inBloom and finalized its agreement in October to share data with the fledgling company.<\/p>\n
Read more: http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/student-data-compiling-system-outrages-article-1.1287990#ixzz2NXofpxHX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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