State Education Department abandons inBloom data-sharing plan

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Gary Stern, TJN

The state Education Department and the inBloom student-data project are undergoing an involuntary uncoupling.

The Education Department is acknowledging that it will end controversial plans to store identifiable student data in a web-based cloud created by inBloom, a non-profit funded by the Gates Foundation.

State lawmakers passed legislation early this week that prohibits the department from giving student information to entities that collect and store data for use in a data dashboard or portal — as inBloom intended to do for New York. The state is also required to make sure that student data already uploaded is deleted.

http://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2014/04/02/state-education-department-abandons-inbloom-data-sharing-plan/7204567/