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Finance committee narrows student-data sharing with vendors; requests data-policy review
Summary
The New Haven School District finance and operations committee reviewed multiple data-sharing agreements with vendors including I‑Ready and Scholastic, directed staff to remove teacher email addresses from one MOU, and asked for a refreshed district data‑sharing policy to return to the committee before full-board consideration.
The New Haven School District Finance & Operations Committee on Wednesday reviewed several memorandum-of-understanding drafts that would allow outside vendors to use district student and staff data, and directed staff to narrow what fields are shared before the items go to the full board.
Committee members said they want the district to provide only the minimum data necessary for vendors to deliver and evaluate their programs, and asked staff to bring the district—s data-sharing policy back for review. The committee did not adopt an ordinance or vote to authorize broad data release; instead it agreed on follow-up steps and to send the revised MOUs to the full board.
Mr. Nguyen, who presented the I‑Ready proposed data agreement to the committee, said the vendor had agreed to receive de-identified student records for the proposed effectiveness study but that the draft still included teacher email addresses. "I could strike the teacher email address," Nguyen said, and agreed to…
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