Category Archives: EDUCATION

#NC Parents, Have You Given Your Common Core Feedback?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

NC DPI’s ‘stakeholder’ Common Core ‘survey’, where one has to go LINE BY LINE and GRADE BY GRADE giving input on the standards, is still ongoing. The deadline is April 30th. #NCDPI Common Core Surveys arguably meant to discourage … Continue reading →

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Is The CCSSO President Violating NC Statute 138A?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

Dr. June Atkinson is the NC Superintendent of Schools. She is also the President of the CCSSO — one of three outside, unelected groups that produced the Common Core State Standards.

The CCSSO is heavily invested in the Common Core State Standards, or rather the CCSSO has been invested in by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in grants that total over $91.2 million.

NC tax payers are also invested in the CCSSO. [Read: Citizen’s Information Request Yields 60K In CCSSO Dues]

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David vs Goliath In #NCed

Posted on March 30, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

The Big Ed Complex of ‘education non-profits’ backed by left leaning groups and the NC Chamber of Commerce have been pushing Common Core in North Carolina.

Meet the grassroots group who has developed a plan to revamp the standards in the state…

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#SB534: Study Student Online Data Privacy

Posted on March 30, 2015 by A.P. Dillon

On March 26th, Senator Chad Barefoot filed SB 535 (Study Student Online Data Privacy).
The bill would form a study committee to inspect and investigate issues around the protection of multiple aspects of student data being collected in North Carolina, including what third parties have access, disclosure and protection process and Cloud based data.

In 2014, Senator Barefoot authored a student data privacy bill (SB 815) which was signed into law. Given the invasive nature and data collection inherent in HB 13 and the data collection machine in use by NC DPI currently, this study of student data is very timely.
The filed text is brief:

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