Parents in New York are suing the State Education Department to block the release of their children’s confidential data to inBloom, fearing it ay be hacked or turned over to commercial vendors.
New York is the only state that continues to insist that it will release all student data to the database created by the Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation and developed by Rupert Murdoch’s company. Despite the protests of key legislators, the State Education Department remains defiant.
Only the courts can stop education officials from breaching student privacy, ignoring parental concerns.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
We need the courts to step in and stop this egregious violation of privacy rights. At the same time, we need to continue to press those in Albany including NYSED, the Regents, the Governor and other elected officials. Please sign and share this petition http://bit.ly/18VBvX2 It is a call to action to stop NYSED from sharing confidential information without parental consent and violating the privacy rights of students and parents.
Send a message to Governor Cuomo; unless be wants to be Chris Christie’s running mate, start acting like a Democrat and oppose this intrusive attack on the children of New York.
Cuomo = Christie!
We don’t need two thugs running our country into the ground even more. Cuomo and Christie: no class, all gas.
It is about time that parents pursued legal remedies. Think about the extent of the disruption to the reform juggernaut if parents groups in many states started to drag the ‘reformers’ into court on a regular basis. The war would open up on different fronts, with each parent/community group using the legal system slightly differently to meet their needs. Litigation is a valid tool for both system change and guerrilla warfare.
Who’s liable when Murdoch’s inBloom data “security” is breached? Will Duncan be held accountable for changing FERPA laws to circumvent parents in favor of corporate data profiteering? State and federal officials must answer these questions and return student privacy rights to parents.
1) Why New York? 2) Who are the connections between agencies/office/vested corporate interests that would prompt public servants to be so defiant and disrespectful of the public they should serve? 3) Why has Governor Cuomo suddenly gone so silent (from being a lobbyist for the students to the star in a “Where’s Waldo”) on this immensely important citizen right to privacy issue?
Murdoch’s “education” chief, Joel Klein and others are using certain NY Regents and King to promote their K-12 for-profit agenda across the US. If New York pulls out of inBloom and the Common Core, Murdoch’s dream of tapping into the $500 BILLION dollar education sector in the US will be diminished.
How will the News Corp shareholders respond?
King works for the corporate powers, not for the parents, students and taxpayers. Follow the state and federal tax funded corporate interests through contracts and related propaganda with Wireless Generation > Amplify > Shared Learning Collaborative > Gates Foundation > Common Core > inBloom > EngageNY.
http://jonathanpelto.com/2013/01/31/when-it-comes-to-k-through-12-education-we-see-a-500-billion-sector-in-the-u-s-rupert-murdoch/
Bingo, exactly it is an incestuous pool of bloviating blowhards who are motivated by profits; kids are props and teachers are abused for their personal gain. Shame and may they rot.
Diane Hartunian
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Has anyone pursued the right to personal data to not be shared collectively by a school, district, or state? Diane always talks about the use of data for diagnostic reasons.
Is there any case that has considered that my kids school data is like their medical records and not available for group study without express permission?
The opt out movement opts out even taking standardized tests. Could a student take a test but refuse the data be released for collective analysis?
Williamsville Central Schools, a large suburban school district outside Buffalo, NY, has decided to opt out of InBloom. The money involved is inconsequential. The parents have spoken.