Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland: College Board fined $750K for selling NY test-taker personal data: AG

Thursday, March 7, 2024

College Board fined $750K for selling NY test-taker personal data: AG

College Board is paying up to settle claims that the SAT administrator peddled personal info about teenage test-takers to colleges and others, allowing the group to profit off New York student data.

State Attorney General Letitia James announced that the test developer agreed this week to cough up $750,000 and will be prohibited from monetizing student data it obtains through contracts with New York schools and districts.

The attorney general said College Board for years licensed information to colleges, scholarship programs and other customers who used it to coax young people to their programs.

“Students have more than enough to be stressed about when they take college entrance exams,” James said in a statement, “and shouldn’t have to worry about their personal information being bought and sold.”..

https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/14/college-board-fined-750k-for-selling-test-taker-personal-data-ag/?share=btad0watoertpe2nlnw1

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1 comment:

AnonymousMarch 8, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Under the guise of academic integrity
The students risk losing their identity
As the college board does lack fidelity
For it exists merely for profit inherently.
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Formed in 2002, the Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland seeks to achieve the goals of coherent, content-rich curriculum standards; high expectations combined with timely remediation and acceleration; a wider range of educational options for parents and children; greater transparency and accountability; and meaningful community input.

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What The Washington Post said about the Parents' Coalition

The coalition might be the best-known parent advocacy group in the region. Its members represent several constituencies, including parents of special education and gifted education students and fiscal watchdogs. The group's defining victory came this school year when the school system scaled back the fees charged to families for course materials.

Coalition leaders have drawn attention to the misuse of funds collected from students for activities, the broadcast of a commercial radio service on school buses and, with their "Weast Watch" blog, the travel habits of Weast and his lieutenants.

The Washington Post, June 4, 2009

Jerry Weast on the Parents' Coalition

"Along the way, you’ve had a challenging relationship with the Parents’ Coalition, the network of citizen activists who use the political process and other means to hold MCPS accountable.

The thing people accuse me of is listening, but not hearing. I hear, but I do not always agree. I am sorry that the world is faster than it was 10 years ago. I did not do that. [But] if we do not keep up, then our kids will be behind. We have to stop whining and get real."

Bethesda Magazine, March-April 2011