For immediate release, March 14, 2013 For more information: Leonie Haimson [email protected] ; 917-435-9329 [scribd id=130379621 key=key-1pzcctk24cykvbx5hrcd mode=scroll]
New York State and NYC, along with 8 other states (MA, LA, CO, IL, NC, GA, DE, KY) and more on the way, have agreed to share confidential student and teacher data with a Gates-funded organization called inBloom, Inc. So far, Reuters, the NY Daily News, Hechinger Report, Politics 365, and The Denver Post have […]
Below you will find a sample resolution, created February 2013, on the need to protect student privacy. The resolution is intended for CECs, Community Boards, Presidents Councils and PTAs. For more information on this subject. Look at our fact sheet (here). To download the sample resolution as a document, click (here). Or to view the […]
Leonie Haimson sat down with Partnership for Student Advocacy’s Mary Conway-Speigel to talk about NY State Education Department’s current plan to turn over private, personally-identifiable student data with a Gates-funded corporation who will then make this data available to commercial vendors. Check our fact sheet here for more information.
NYC parent advocates and Class Size Matters joined with famed civil rights attorney, Norman Siegel, for a news conference on October 14, 2012. The Associated Press reported the activists calling on State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, and Board of Regents Chancellor, Merryl Tisch, to defend students’ privacy protections against using student records for commercial purposes. […]
For Immediate Release: October 14, 2012 For more information contact: Norman Siegel: (347) 907-0867; [email protected] Leonie Haimson: (917) 435-9329; [email protected] Attorney and Parents Send Letter to NYS Attorney General & Education Officials Questioning Legality of Providing Confidential Student Data to Limited Corporation and Demanding Parental Right to Consent On Sunday, October 14, at a press […]
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 .
