Capistrano Unified School District Data Breach

LCAP Goal 1 Measurable Outcome #10

Measurable Outcome 10

Universal screening data will be gathered on an ongoing basis at all sites
For most students, baseline data is gathered at the beginning of the year and students are progress monitored at the middle and end of the year.

CUSD's LCAP does not state how data is gathered.
Why does CUSD have so many Student Data Management Systems?

• Eagle Software (Aeries)
• BrightBytes
• Cambium Learning Group
• Catapult Learning
• Edupoint
• Follett Aspen Student Information Systems
• Illuminate Education
• Naviance
• Solution Tree
• Performance Matters
• Renaissance Learning
• School Loop

Is CUSD is raising revenue from the collection and sale of student data?

CUSD Web Page: http://capousd.ca.schoolloop.com/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1479030789577
When you click on the link:

• Application to Conduct Research

Through such means as an Interview, Survey/Questionnaire, Test, Instrument or Other. So now we are taking up instructional time with tests and surveys so that third party for profit companies can collect student and family data?

PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST IS NEEDED:
How many of these research applications have been approved and how much has CUSD been paid for this research?
As a result of this loophole- CUSD has found opportunities to profit from student data mining. The following are two examples:

Federal Money under the Obama Administration

Stimulus Money was used to conduct educational research studies - $4.8 billion -

CUSD received $22.4 million.

InnovateEd; Trustee Hatton-Hodson's company, benefited from the collection of the data as a "sub-vendor".
Source: https://projects.propublica.org/recovery/item/20120630/36692

If you look at the list of vendors - CUSD has paid relationships with most. The Vendors are listed after the recipients so scroll down.

Source: https://projects.propublica.org/recovery/item/20120630/36692

Hobsons California Readiness Block Grants

BIG RED FLAG

Capistrano Unified and Capistrano Connections Academy are on the list of recipients of this grant money. How did CUSD get this grant? To qualify a high school has to have 75% of students who are Low Income or ELL.
9.5% of CUSD students are ELL. Source: DataQuest
22.31% (11,962 Socio-economically disadvantaged students out of total enrollment 53,613) DataQuest
The criteria is:
Source: https://www.naviance.com/resources/entry/sb1050-implications-and-opportunities-for-california-students-college-readi
"High schools are eligible for this grant if they have at least 75 percent of students who are low-income or learning English as a second language. In our one-hour webinar on September 20, a panel of experts and educators will discuss grant details including:

• College readiness indicators and how they will be measured
• The formula for determining grant recipients
• How the grants will dovetail with current accountability plans
• Ways schools and school districts can prepare for the grant application process
• How college readiness fits into the current K-12 framework
• Possible college readiness implications at the national level"

CUSD received $619,868 in 2016-17

http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/r14/collegereadiness16result.asp

Retired Trustee Hatton-Hodson left the Board early to move to Northern California where her company InnovateEd will now be providing workshops to teach Districts how to use their LCAP’s to enhance student learning, provide greater parent and community engagement and transparency. InnovateEd will profit greatly from the data they collected on CUSD students and their families.

CUSD will begin a new phase of the study by adding a new “Local" Dashboard which will begin social and emotional testing of CUSD students. The data collected under this study will begin in kindergarten with the Kindergarten Readiness Surveys and through personality testing through Naviance Family at different grade levels. The collection of personally identifiable social and emotional data begins to be within the medical area (HIPPA), and the collection and sale of such data is a violation of the privacy rights of every CUSD student and their families.

CUSD is forcing students to participate by embedding Naviance Family into classes that are required for graduation which effectively means Parents who are concerned about their family privacy have NO ABILITY TO OPT OUT of data collection.

Trustee Hatton-Hodson greatly influenced curriculum choices at CUSD, and has put the interest of her company and it's partners (LCAPca and Systems Leadership Collaborative and their research above the academic interest of students).

CUSD’s $10,000 payment to ACSA Education Foundation for CUSD's participation in Systems Leadership Collaborative last August is the basis for the on-going Conflict of Interest case against Trustee Hatton-Hodson.

It is CUSD's contracts for data-mining that is the real reason CUSD Trustees have voted to continue CCP/Health as a graduation requirement for one more year stating that even if they wanted to eliminate CCP/Health as a graduation requirement for 2017-18 they could not.

I placed the elimination of CCP/Stand Alone Health on the June 7, 2017 BOT meeting as a Citizen's Request. I did so specifically to have this discussion after Trustee Hatton-Hodson had left the Board. Staff granted my request and then immediately scheduled a vote to continue CCP/Health for an additional year essentially rendering my Citizens request meaningless.

The full Presentation can be viewed at: June 7, 2017 BOT meeting Agenda Item #23 page 324

Board Audio at 34:37

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