Student Data: Protect Your Child's Data
Update : so there is definitely something amiss here. One, the FTC had made ConnectEdu promise NOT to sell off student data assets and yet that appears to be what happened. Only the new company, Graduation Alliance, may have gotten away with it because they seem to have bought the entire ConnectEdu and so got bit just the data but the entire company. Two, I asked SPS a number of questions but only got this reply: Thanks (sic) you for bringing this to our attention. We are working with the new company to resolve this quickly and ask them to comply by not selling the information. Well, I don't think the company is selling the information but they surely bought it up and did NOT return it to the district as was promised. From a thread in June 2014 from KUOW: After learning that the company had filed for bankruptcy and was looking to sell, Rahm said the district tried to end its contract with ConnectEDU and have all student data on the site deleted...