Undernews: Common Core con allows corporations access to student data, but not parents

[John Gear]

http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2014/07/common-core-con-allows-corporations.html

Common Core con allows corporations access to student data, but not parents

Watchdog Wire - Colorado school districts are collecting broad, detailed educational and psychological data on their students for use by private companies and the federal government, yet parental access to the same information remains limited and difficult to come by.

Local districts are giving parents the run-around and stalling, while the state Department of Education claims that it simply doesn't have the ability to connect parents with their children's data.

[The problem mirrors] John Eppolito's experience in Nevada, where the state of Nevada initially tried to charge him $10,000 to see his own children's data. In the face of adverse publicity, they dropped the charge, only to claim that they are unable to connect him with the data, the same data they previously tried to charge him for access to.

As part of its successful campaign for $73 million of Race to the Top money, Colorado agreed to implement Common Core, and to the the Four Assurances, the third of which reads, "Building data systems that measure student growth and success."

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