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Capistrano Unified School District Student Data Mining
No ability for parents and students to OPT OUT!
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| CUSD STUDENT DATA MINING | |
PSAT | |
| Normally a District will have interested students enroll for the PSAT directly through College Board. The cost per student is $20.00. CUSD is opting to do something new. CUSD is choosing to do the PSAT through Kahn Academy. This option is FREE to students, and is offered through a partnership between College Board and Khan Academy. To participate students must create an account on the Kahn Academy web site at: https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/sat/ and, on the College Board web site at: https://account.collegeboard.org/login/login?DURL=https://cbsso.collegeboard.org:443/as/4xnbW/resume/as/authorization.ping&appId=329 Parents should read Kahn Academy's Privacy Poly at: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/privacy-policy "We may share data in connection with special programs you participate in. "If you participate in special programs where Khan Academy partners with third parties, Khan Academy may share data collected from or about you with its third party partners to facilitate the program or services being offered. For instance, if you participate in Khan Academy’s program with College Board, Khan Academy may share information regarding your study habits, tests taken, and test scores with College Board."CUSD's unilateral choice to offer students only the PSAT through this "special program" does not provide students with the ability to OPT OUT. CUSD has enrolled ALL students in this PSAT special program and that includes ORA Personality Profiler. Personally Identifiable Information is suppose to be protected. Students and Parents should be asked if they want to OPT IN to this special program. This is unique to CUSD. If you look at Saddleback and Laguna Beach, their students are taking the PSAT directly through College Board at a cost of $20 per student. CUSD saves $20.00 per student by enrolling in this special programs, but every students personally identifiable data is given to Kahn Academy and any third party partners. Parents should have a voice in wether or not to share personally identifiable data. CUSD has unilaterally taken that option away from CUSD parents and students. To do so seems to be a violation of Kahn Academy Terms of Service. 1.5 Coach. Khan Academy may make available certain features and tools that permit certain Users (such as, for example, representatives of school districts, schools, teachers, and other educators) to work with students and other Users through the Website in order to provide such students and other Users with tutorial, educational and other education-related services, and to review and evaluate educational achievement and progress of such students and other Users (each a “Coach”). If you are a Coach, you must use Khan Academy’s Coach registration process when registering accounts on the Website for one or more of your students. IF YOU ARE A COACH AND YOU REGISTER AN ACCOUNT FOR A CHILD USER, YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE RECEIVED EXPRESS CONSENT FROM SUCH CHILD USER’S PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN FOR YOU TO REGISTER THE CHILD USER FOR THE WEBSITE AND FOR YOU TO PROVIDE TO KHAN ACADEMY THE INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE REGISTRATION OF SUCH CHILD USER. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU FURTHER AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS ON BEHALF OF SUCH CHILD USER, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BEING LIABLE FOR ALL USE OF THE WEBSITE BY THE CHILD USER, FOR SO LONG AS THE CHILD USER IS NOT OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH OR ASSUMED BY A VALID PARENT USER ACCOUNT. You hereby agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Khan Academy against any and all claims, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to (a) your violation of any provision, representation or warranty this Section 1.5; (b) the use of the Website by the Child User; (c) your failure to obtain sufficient parental or legal guardian consent; (d) your registration of the Child User, or (e) any other action related to the Child User. Kahn Academy Terms of Service: https://www.khanacademy.org/about/tos Saddleback Unified School DistrictPSAT: Given at each high school. Register at your own school early in October. Cost is $20.00. Saddleback is NOT forcing students to share personally Identifiable Information. Capistrano Unified School District information:Aliso Niguel High School: Dana Hills High School: San Juan Hills High School: Tessoro High School:  Capo Valley High School: San Clemente High School http://www.sctritons.com/guidance |
NAVIANCE FAMILY
Naviance has traditionally been a tool used by High School Juniors and Seniors to track their College Applications and help match students to colleges.
Naviance has been expanded. It is now being used from TK- 12th grade.
Does College and Career Ready really start in TK?
CUSD is the only District that is using Naviance, not as a College Tool, but as a required class for graduation by embedding it into CCP and other Core Educational classes. Naviance does personality testing which under FERPA usually requires parents to "OPT IN". By embedding Naviance into classes that are required for graduation, there is no OPT IN and in fact students have no real way to OPT OUT. This curriculum choice is odd and is unique to CUSD and actually puts students behind in their A-G completion rates by requiring CCP/Health to Graduate. Most Districts inbed the three required units of Health into PE and do not make CCP a graduation requirement which frees up one full year of course work to complete and A-G class.
CUSD's relationship with Naviance is concerning and should be looked at closer.
"If something is not done soon, the vast majority of American K-12 school children will be taught using dubious, federally backed national education “standards” that have come under fire from across the political spectrum."
"America’s kids, as well as their parents, will also be monitored and tracked in unprecedented ways from early childhood into the workforce." ... aka STUDENT DATA MINING!
Alex Newman 2013
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16192-common-core-a-scheme-to-rewrite-education
The New Naviance:
"COLLEGE AND CAREER READY" IS DRIVING UNPRECEDENTED TECHNOLOGY SPENDING DESPITE A LACK OF ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR BASIC EDUCATIONAL SERVICES"
At the September 14, 2016 BOT meeting CUSD spent $2,034,306.71 million dollars on EdTech this month alone. And it should be noted that there are many redundant platforms ie:
CUSD has 12 Student data management systems that all claim to be the only system a district needs:
• 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
CUSD has 5 Administrative Software Solutions that appear to do the same thing.
• Education Management Systems
• Frontline Technologies
• FusionStorm
• Thomas Kelly Software
• Quintessential School Systems
Every new program/platform requires staff training and Professional Development costs. Trustee Lynn Hatton Hodson's firm InnovateEd makes revenue from Professional Development and Educator Training.
FCMAT Chart showing these software platforms are all used for sharing student data:
Under the State's new Education Funding Law - the Local Control Funding Formula CUSD will have had flat per pupil funding of under $8,200.00 for 14 years straight by 2021. CUSD has been forced to cut programs, increase class sizes and defer maintenance to maintain maximum employee compensation, pay for increased technology spending, and increased CalSTRS and CalPERS contributions. Trustee Lynn Hatton- Hodson influences choices on curriculum and technology spending. Is she making decisions that are in the best interest of providing a basic education to every student, or is her involvement with Common Core implementation, EdTech spending and growing professional development opportunities affecting her decisions as a Trustee.
CUSD has no Art Music or Science unless parents fundraise for it.
CUSD has no honors classes including a basic Geometry Honors class which all Districts provide and which you would assume would be a basic component of a STEM education curriculum.
CUSD has the largest class sizes in the Nation
CUSD has not had the funding to fix or maintain facilities since 2007-08 and has allowed students to attend school in substandard facilities with staff to student ratios that are not safe.
Is CUSD really making the education of students it's number one priority, or is there another agenda at work here? Has Trustee Hatton- Hodson's business interests become the number one priority of CUSD?
HOW A DISTRICT CHOOSES TO SPEND IT'S MONEY IF THE BEST REFLECTION OF IT'S PRIORITIES - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COSTS ARE ON THE RISE
Professional Development Expenses continue to rise at times when CUSD has had to use class size increases, furlough days, cuts to programs and services and deferred maintenance to balance its budget. CUSD now spends more on Professional Development than it spends on Books and Supplies for students.
For all the talk about College and Career Ready CUSD math performance is plummeting. You must complete Algebra II by the 11th grade if you want to do well on your college entrance exams. A student wishing to attend a 4- year selective college or university must complete Algebra I, Geometry and Algebra II/Trig. In 2013 7% of students tested "Ready" for college at the end of the 11th grade. In 2014 that number dropped to 4%. So much for the M in "STEM" and "STEAM".
