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FSCCC Congratulates Senator Vitter & Joins Wave of National Support For Student Privacy Protection Act - S 1341
May, 2015
Here is Senator Vitter's Statement from his press release:
"Parents are right to feel betrayed when schools collect and release information about their kids. This is real, sensitive information and it doesn't belong to some bureaucrat in Washington D.C.," Vitter said. "We need to make sure that parents and students have complete control over their own information."
Here is Dr. Karen Effrem's statement from that same release:
"While this bill is very strong in a number of areas critical to student, teacher, and family data privacy, we are especially pleased with the language that prohibits psychological and attitudinal profiling of students in surveys or academic assessments, " said Dr. Karen Effrem, president of Education Liberty Watch and executive director of the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition. "Senator Vitter deserves great thanks for his tireless efforts to roll back the intrusive data gathering, psychological profiling and career tracking of our children by the federal government and corporations." (See Dr. Effrem's research paper "Psychosocial Manipulation in the Common Core Standards and Aligned Tests and Curriculum" for more details on this issue.)
What follows is a national unity statement with the initial strong and very likely to increase list of state and national organizations supporting the legislation:
We; the undersigned groups that have grave concerns about the loss of student and family data privacy, psychological profiling, and career tracking related to the Common Core standards, aligned state tests and longitudinal data systems; are grateful to Senator David Vitter for introducing and do strongly support The Student Privacy Protection Act.
This legislation provides important protections in the following areas:
This legislation provides important protections in the following areas:
- Rolling back the disastrous extra-congressional regulatory changes that vastly expanded access of third parties to our children's personally identifiable data, now limiting that access and requiring parental consent in all cases
- Holding educational agencies, schools, and third parties liable for violations of the law through monetary fines, damages, and court costs
- Prohibiting psychological or attitudinal profiling of students or gathering of sensitive family information via any assessments, including academic assessments or survey.
- Extending data protections for homeschooled students required to submit educational data to public school districtsProhibiting educational agencies, schools, and the Secretary of Education from including personally identifiable information obtained from Federal or State agencies through data matches in student data.
- Banning Federal education funds to states or districts that film, record, or monitor students or teachers in the classroom or remotely without parent or adult student and teacher consent.
We strongly urge the senators of our respective states to co-sponsor this critically important piece of legislation and our congressional representatives to author and co-sponsor this bill in the US House.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
American Principles in Action
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee
Eagle Forum
Education Liberty Watch
Home School Legal Defense Association
Women on the Wall
Special Ed Advocates to Stop Common Core
Stop Early Childhood Common Core
Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee
Eagle Forum
Education Liberty Watch
Home School Legal Defense Association
Women on the Wall
Special Ed Advocates to Stop Common Core
Stop Early Childhood Common Core
STATE ORGANIZATIONS:
Arkansas
Arkansans for Education Freedom
Arkansas Against Common Core
Arkansas Against Common Core
Florida
The Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
Florida Parents RISE
The Tea Party Network
Florida Parents RISE
The Tea Party Network
Georgia
Georgians to Stop Common Core
Idaho
Idahoans for Local Education
Indiana
Hoosiers Against Common Core
Iowa
Iowa RestorEd
Iowa for Student Achievement
Iowa for Student Achievement
Kansas
Kansans Against Common Core
Louisiana
Louisiana Against Common Core
Massachusetts
Common Core Forum
Stop Common Core Massachusetts
Stop Common Core Massachusetts
Michigan
Stop Common Core in Michigan, Inc.
Minnesota
Minnesotans Against Common Core
Missouri
Missouri Coalition Against Common Core
Ohio
Ohioans Against Common Core
Oklahoma
Restore Oklahoma Public Education
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanians Against Common Core
Pennsylvanians Restoring Education
Pennsylvanians Restoring Education
South Dakota
South Dakotans Against Common Core
Tennessee
Tennessee Against Common Core
Texas
Truth in Texas Education
Truth in Catholic Education
Truth in Catholic Education
West Virginia
WV Against Common Core
Wyoming
Wyoming Citizens Opposing Common Core
