John Eppolito is a Stop Common Core activist in Nevada. He asked a couple of months ago to see what data was collected on his four children by the Nevada State Department of Education. The cost for him to receive that information is staggering. Below is the email thread between him and Judy Osgood, the Public Information Officer with the Nevada Department of Education…
The Department’s Director of Information Technology, Glenn Myer, has reviewed your request to receive reports of data for each of your four children that is contained in the SLDS. He has estimated that the cost will be approximately $10,194, which represents at least three solid weeks (120 hours) of dedicated staff time (billed at $84.95/hour) to build, test and validate a new application that will be able to display individual student data in a readable format. Payment of this fee must be made in full before work can begin.
Read more: Want to See What Data Nevada Collects On Your Kids? Just Pay $10K
Update: In NH the above request for information from our longitudinal database (Unique Pupil Identifier) could NOT be denied and any cost for the information could NOT be passed on to the requester.
RSA 193-E:5,I(d)(2) is very clear:
193-E:5 Unique Pupil Identification. –
I. The department of education shall, using federal funds only, implement and maintain a unique pupil identification system on a statewide basis that complies with the following requirements:
(d)(2) A parent or legal guardian shall, upon request made in person to the early child program director, school district superintendent for the district which the child last attended, or postsecondary institution registrar, have access to their child’s unique pupil identifier and their child’s data maintained in the data warehouse. A person who is 18 years of age or older shall, upon request made in person to the early child program director, school district superintendent for the district which the person last attended, or postsecondary institution registrar, have access to their unique pupil identifier and their data maintained in the data warehouse.