Tell them no. Comments to USDoE close February 18.
Every state group opposing Common Core or ESSA, anyone opposing Fed-Led, every parent concerned about data mining their child, every teacher, should simply write in and at least say NO. Our silence infers compliance.
The Federal Government has a proposal to collect sensitive personal information of teachers and children, including personally identifiable student discipline records and IEP records. The proposal is open for public review and comment until FEB. 18th.
You can see the U.S. Department of Education data collection proposal here. Very few have commented. One group representing online learning, iNACOL, left comments in favor of the data collection, here. iNACOL encourages USDOE to sample schools that use personalized learning and competency-based approaches because “Technology-based models can allow for rapid capture of student performance data.” (If iNACOL sounds familiar, this is the organization representing online schools whose CEO said, “Online learning is a trojan horse for education reform.”)
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), also commented and said no. EPIC issued this warning complaint to USDoE. Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post wrote about the complaint field by EPIC and alerted Americans to the Federal data grabbing proposal. See an excerpt from the WaPo article here:
“The U.S. Education Department’s new planned system of records that will collect detailed data on thousands of students — and transfer Tell them no. Comments to USDoE close February 18. – Missouri Education Watchdog:
