LOCAL SCHOOL OFFICIALS FEARFUL OF STUDENT RECORDS DATABASE

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This has been a hot topic in the Everything Croton email lately--as such, you may have an interest in this rather extensive Journal News article; the link is only good for a few weeks:

LOCAL SCHOOL OFFICIALS FEARFUL OF STUDENT RECORDS DATABASE - With a rare level of urgency, school officials are scrambling to keep extensive student records out of a privately run database that is a key part of the state’s reform agenda.Local officials, once again at odds with the state Education Department, have grave concerns about what will happen to more than 400 categories of student data once they are uploaded to a Web cloud run by inBloom, a non-profit group funded by the Gates Foundation and supported by Amazon. READ MORE HERE http://www.lohud.com/article/20131108/NEWS/311080063/Local-school-officials-fearful-student-records-database