Please Sign our Petition Urging AG James to Investigate Illegal College Board Activities

October 11, 2019

Good news! After I published an oped in the Washington Post about how the NY State Education Dept. had proposed regulations that would allow the sale of student data and its use for marketing purposes, and after more than 600 of you sent in comments opposing this attempt to undermine the strong prohibition against selling data in our student privacy law, NYSED officials withdrew this language from the proposed regs. The revised regulations without that provision will soon be posted for a third round of public comments and will be voted on by the Regents, probably in January.

Then, just last night, it was reported that Illinois legislators have urged their state Attorney General to investigate the College Board practice of selling student data, which violates their state student privacy law as well. A spokesperson for the AG has said that he is “looking into the matter.”

Please sign this petition to Attorney General Letitia James, urging her to investigate the College Board and ACT practice of selling student data, which violates our state student privacy law. The College Board also engages in consumer fraud and deceptive practices, since they falsely claim on their data privacy web page that “the College Board does not sell student information” while in reality, they do sell it for 47 cents per student.

Also important! For those of you whose children will soon take the PSAT, SAT, AP or ACT exams, we now have a one-page flyer with instructions on how to prevent their personal data from being sold. The flyer is embedded in a longer background piece about this issue on our blog here.

Please share the flyer and the background information with other parents to alert them to this important issue.

Thanks for your support as always, Leonie

Leonie Haimson
Executive Director
Class Size Matters
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New York, NY 10011
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