This notice just in:
“Parents, do you know your child’s confidential, personal school records are going to be shared with a corporation called inBloom Inc?
This highly sensitive information will be stored on a data cloud and disclosed to for-profit corporations to help them develop and market their “learning products”
The data will include your child’s names, address, photo, email, test scores, grades, economic and racial status, and detailed disciplinary, health and special education records.
Find out more about this plan from advocates and state and city education officials.
What: Town Hall meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street
(take the #4 or #5 train to Boro Hall; #2, #3 or R to Court St., or A,C,F to Jay Street/Boro Hall)
When: Monday, April 29 at 6 PM
Invited guests include representatives from the NYS Education Department, the NYC Department of Education, the Gates Foundation, inBloom Inc., and the NYS Board of Regents.
Co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Parent Academy, Assemblymembers Danny O’Donnell, James Brennan, William Colton; NYS Senators Liz Krueger and Martin Golden; NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, NYC Council Education Chair Robert Jackson, Council Members Gale Brewer and Leticia James; Class Size Matters, the Learning Disabilities Association of NY, Community Education Councils of Districts 1, 3, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 and the Citywide Council for Special Education, Alliance for Quality Education, Coalition for Educational Justice, and Urban Youth Collaborative.
The event will be livestreamed at http://www.stopmotionsolo.tv or http://www.ustream.tv/stopmotionsolo (either one is okay)
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Reblogged this on 70jamsession and commented:
Remember reading George Orwell’s allegory, Animal Farm?
I am teaching this novella right now to my tenth grade Regents students and am about to begin this unit with my tenth grade Honors students. Ironically, I will have multiple examples of current events to parallel with the absurdity of this timeless piece by Orwell.
I have already had questions like: “Why are parents and teachers allowing such testing measures to happen if it really has nothing to do with us?”
I do not have a satisfactory answer for these innocent faces of young adults staring back at me.
What will they ask when they find out that additionally their profiles, basically, are also being exposed?
PARENTS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Let’s J.A.M. !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2yElx9_rQ re: inbloom and not the florist
It’s fantastic. Very well done.
Their vision!
https://www.inbloom.org/our-vision
First it was Louisianna stopping InBlume and now it is up to the residents of N.Y. to lay down another defeat for them and their lack of privacy foolish greediness. “Get ur done N.Y.”
This is crap. Maybe I don’t want my childs private info shared with anyone
As far as I am concerned a parent does not have the right to allow their child’s personal education records and other personal information to be sold for corporate profit. How would you feel, as an adult, knowing that your parents allowed all of your personal and educational information to be gathered from the time you were six years old and that it was available for perusal and purchase by a corrupt and greedy business culture?
I was told by my a high ranking official in my state that data would not be share and that the purpose of the database was to make software compatible across all platforms. Makes me wonder why they need a DATAbase for that. It’s very confusing to me.
“database was to make software compatible across all platforms.” ????
Wow, just wow.
I was there last night – InBloom sent nobody to represent the company or answer parents’ questions. NYSED had reps (don’t know names or positions) in the audience who were there “to listen” but refused to address parents or answer any questions and the DOE sent the Deputy Chief Academic Officer who had memorized her talking points. This the contempt they have for parents.
Btw, inBloom will replace ARIS which was created and launched in 2008 for the bargain price of $80 million.