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Committee forwards RISE data-hub MOU amid staff and counsel concerns over liability and data security
Summary
The New Haven Public Schools Finance & Operations Committee voted to forward a memorandum of understanding with the Connecticut RISE network to the full board while flagging contract liability and indemnification language and data-security concerns.
The Finance & Operations Committee of New Haven Public Schools voted to send a memorandum of understanding with the Connecticut RISE network — which would give teachers access to a RISE “data hub” drawing from district records — to the full Board of Education for final approval.
Committee members moved the package to the full board during the Sept. 1 meeting after presentations from district staff and RISE representatives. The MOU would let RISE use district-held student data to produce teacher-facing dashboards and reports intended to help ninth-grade students stay “on track” for promotion.
The measure drew detailed questions about what data fields would be shared, how staff would use the hub, and how families would be engaged. “What we’re trying to do is just put the district’s existing data in the hands of educators soon enough and in an easy enough way to interact with that they can actually support those students before the students are are struggling,”…
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