Sept.6, 2019 Welcome back to a new school year! I hope you had a great summer. 1.I have exciting news to report: I will be co-hosting a new weekly radio show on WBAI, called Talk out of School, with Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education. Our first show will be aired […]
On May 30, 2013, Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers and member of the Technical Advisory Group of the Shared Learning Collaborative, the precursor to inBloom Inc., wrote a letter to Michele Cahill and Stacey Childress, expressing her concern about inBloom’s privacy and security provisions. Cahill is Vice President at the Carnegie […]
Where are NYC schools now? Presentation to NW Bronx for Change May 18, 2013 on class size, school closings, privatization of education, high-stakes testing, and student privacy and inBloom. Download here. [scribd id=143023212 key=key-1gi9jlcyhsjfdb9qazru mode=scroll]
On April 30th we held a Town hall meeting at Brooklyn Borough Hall about the state and city plan to share personally identifiable student information with a corporation called inBloom inc. and other third party vendors. About 150 people showed up, including: two Regents (Regent Kathleen Cashin of Brooklyn and Regent Betty Rosa of the […]
On May 15, 2013, education activists sent a letter to the New York State Regents and Chancellor, alerting them to the fact that 4 out of 9 states have pulled out of inBloom, Inc, and providing updates on the April 29 Town Hall meeting. Download the letter here. Or read below. [scribd id=141715765 key=key-12auz1a3iocvs9ysw9lh mode=scroll]
Everyone is welcome to attend our Town Hall Meeting on student privacy & inBloom Inc. April 29, 2013 at 6pm, Brooklyn Borough Hall Download the flyer here. See our fact sheet here.
Class Size Matters 2013 presentations on inBloom Inc and the sharing of personally-identifiable student and teacher data Date Committee Time Location 4/9/2013 Community Board 1, Youth and Ed. Committee 6:00 PM 49-51 Chambers St, Rm 709 4/10/2013 CEC 3 7:00 PM Wadleigh–215 W 114th St, New York 4/11/2013 CEC 5 6:30 PM Harlem Technology Center, 425 […]
Save the date! We are holding a Town Hall meeting on inBloom Inc., and the state and city’s plan to share your child’s confidential educational, disciplinary and health records with for-profit vendors, to help them develop and market their “learning products.” Brooklyn Borough Hall, Monday, April 29, 2013 at 6 PM. Co-sponsors include NYC Council […]
Here are some news clips and video footage of our March 13, 2013 press conference on student privacy violations. For more information about our press conference, click here. Parents, Experts Blast New State Database of Private Student Info NBC New York/AP View more videos at: http://nbcnewyork.com. Civil Rights Attorney Norman Siegel speaks up for […]
On Oct. 23 at 7 PM, learn how the DOE is sharing student data with unscrupulous ed tech vendors, social media companies, charter schools & more and how you can help protect your children’s privacy. Register via Zoom today!
Talk out of School radio show and podcast airs Sunday night at 7 PM on WBAI 99.5 FM or online at www.wbai.org when Leonie Haimson and Daniel Alicea interview guests and discuss issues affecting public schools in NYC, the state level and nationally. You can stream or subscribe to the podcast here; or at iTunes, Spotify or Google.
We held our annual Skinny award dinner Wed. June 28, 2023, honoring Rep. Jamaal Bowman, former Bronx principal and now a progressive trailblazer who is fighting in Congress to protect and improve our public schools. More photos on Facebook .
