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FL: The Florida Schools Safety Portal will contain and aggregate the most personal student information.

"Is it even possible to use data to predict school shootings? It is almost impossible to create such a system. There just isn’t enough information about the small number of students who actually commit mass acts of violence, compared to data about students who make up the entire school population. There are too few data points to accurately model school shootings because they are statistically rare events. Any conclusions drawn from an analysis of the data will be unreliable at best."

"What are the potential biases? The data sets included in the database are problematic from the outset due to their high correlation with race, gender and socioeconomic status...Other potential entry points for bias lie in the creation of algorithms used to analyze the data (algorithmic bias) and in the people who will view student data, such as threat assessment team members (observation bias). Schools must ensure that teams are trained and pre-screened for biases. Procedures should be established to prevent conscious and unconscious prejudices against student groups that are disproportionately impacted by digital surveillance technologies and increased policing."

FL: Another costly unfunded mandate from the state. Charter school corporations are exempt. Why is that? Is this experimental psych training for kids even appropriate? If the state is so convinced, why aren't they funding mental health professionals for schools? Be a #FLPublicEdVoter It's #NowOrNever2020

National: U.S. Senators raise questions about student data collection by corporate Ed Tech which monetizes and profits from what should be protected private information . Check out the list of vendors at the end.

FL: The so-called "accountability" of shaming, ranking, labeling & dooming our children & teachers has been a collossal fail. Time to shut down the toxic politics of "ed reform." Be a #FLPublicEdVoter It's #NowOrNever2020

FL: Sadly, Florida is well represented on this list. Underpaying professional educators is shameful. Florida politicians wouldn't last a single day in this profession. Yet they literally stay up nights thinking of ways to heap heavy new responsibilities on teachers such as arming them and expecting them to become armchair psychologists who can diagnose troubled kids after a couple of "trainings" w/an online avatar. And they wonder what to do about the teacher shortage. How about rolling back 20 years of Florida ed policy? Time to stop voting for the toxic status quo. Be a #PublicEdVoterFL

FL: This is the obsessive rush to fund corporate charters instead of district public schools. Never forget that there are only 255k charter students vs nearly 3M public school kids. Nevertheless, these lawmakers stick to their shameful agenda of starving public schools while heaping unfair advantage on charters & their billionaire operators. Had enough? Be a #FLPublicEdVoter #FloridaMan = Rep. Travis Hutson