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Board approves five‑year data agreement with Utah State University over board privacy concerns
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education narrowly approved an interagency data‑sharing agreement with Utah State University's Center for the School of the Future to support research using longitudinal student and teacher data. The 8–5–1 vote followed questions about teacher identifiers and whether data could be de‑identified before transfer.
The Utah State Board of Education approved an interagency agreement with Utah State University's Center for the School of the Future to share longitudinal student and teacher data, despite privacy concerns raised by several board members.
Why it matters: The agreement (USBE 250018 IAA) is structured as a multi‑year research relationship intended to support program evaluation and longitudinal studies. Board members and staff debated whether the data request had to include teacher Cactus IDs, whether the data sharing would be a one‑time upload or recurring on an annual basis, and whether de‑identified teacher identifiers could be used to reduce…
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