Aug 31, 2015
SAU16 students brought home a booklet today. The front page is permission to administer potassium iodide pills. Inside are several pages of policies which all parents should read. Especially the items on page 5, referencing the Federal Education Records Protection...
Aug 8, 2015
If you recall, there was an effort to help pass important legislation last session that would have required PARENTAL WRITTEN PERMISSION before the school could SURVEY your children. Rep. Terry Wolf worked hard to remove “written permission” from the...
Jun 24, 2015
Parents, now that the schools are collecting all kinds of data on your children, it’s important to find out where it’s going. We advise filing a “Right To Know” request to obtain information on what’s being collected and where that...
May 15, 2015
Common Core’s Data Collection, the State Longitudinal Data Systems and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Jane Robbins, Senior Fellow with the American Principles Project gave an in-depth presentation on Common Core’s data collection and the interfacing...
May 5, 2015
The questions below are from the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey given to students in Canton, Mass, and from the statewide Massachusetts 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey posted on the Mass Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education (DOE) website. REMINDER, HB206 goes...
May 4, 2015
We’ve been warning about the data-mining of our children’s information through the SLDS (Statewide Longitudinal Data System) Parents need to look at some of their elected officials to see who originally supported this in New Hampshire. New...