How Southold School District is requesting inBloom delete all of their students data, and why it might work.

It seems that even if a school district refuses their Race to the Top money, Commissioner King still believes all data in that district must be shared with New York State vendor, inBloom. The Southold school district in Suffolk is trying something a little different.

Superintendent Gamburg has found a clause in the contract between the state and inBloom that states "If a school district decides they no longer wish to use the SLI system (Shared Learning Infrastructure) they may request that district student data be deleted from the SLI data store.” Below I have attached the letter he has sent to inBloom CEO Iwan Streichenberger. He sites that clause and goes on to say that his reason for requesting that student data be deleted from their system is that the data is highly sensitive and it should not to be subjected to the potential for misuse.

I am eagerly awaiting for Superintendent Gamburg to post their reply.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/180517991/Letter-to-InBloom-from-Southold-1-pdf