PARENT VICTORY!! END OF THE LINE FOR INBLOOM New York state legislators made clear in their recently inked budget deal that they didn’t want student data uploaded to the inBloom database, which the Gates Foundation spent $100 million to build, hoping it would become a resource for states and school districts nationwide. So the New York State Education Department has directed inBloom to delete all data stored there to date. No additional data will be uploaded, a spokesman said. That abrupt termination leaves inBloom with no known customers. Massachusetts is still officially considering a contract with the nonprofit, but a state education department spokesman said it was unlikely to proceed. Illinois no longer plans to upload large amounts of data, though individual districts may participate; inBloom won’t say whether any have agreed to do so. — Though it looks like the end of the line for the database — unveiled with great fanfare just last spring — inBloom spokesman Adam Gaber tells Morning Education the nonprofit is “pushing forward with our mission” to make student data more accessible and more useful to educators, while maintaining student privacy. “We continue to believe that our technology has the unique ability to empower teachers in ways that can dramatically improve learning for students.”
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:50:23 +0000
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