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​What Data Is Your Child’s School-Issued Google Drive Account Collecting?

August 30, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

Students and staff in a Missouri school district learned that their district-issued Google Drive accounts have been collecting personal data without their knowledge.

Filed Under: Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Cheri Kiesecker, Google Drive, Missouri, Missouri Education Watchdog, Springfield Public Schools, student data privacy

Fireworks in Missouri Over Common Core

June 9, 2015 By Shane Vander Hart

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch accuse Republicans of peddling a Common Core lie, Anne Gassel & Gretchen Logue rebut the lies and half truths they put forth.

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Anne Gassel, Common Core State Standards, Gretchen Logue, Missouri, Missouri Education Watchdog

Missouri Judge Places Restraining Order on Smarter Balanced Payments

December 2, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Missouri Education Watchdog reports that a Missouri Circuit Court judge has temporarily blocked payments from the state to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green on November 25 that the lawsuit filed by plaintiffs Fred N. Sauer, Anne Gassel, and Gretchen Logue against Missouri Governor Jay Nixon had a chance of […]

Filed Under: Common Core Assessments Tagged With: common core assessments, Daniel Green, Missouri Education Watchdog, Smarter Balanced

Feds Bypass States to Get Local Districts to Sign “Future Ready District Pledge”

September 18, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Missouri Education Watchdog first reported today that the U.S. Department of Education has sent out a letter to Superintendents of local school districts explaining their “future ready district pledge.” You can find the letter here and I also have the text below: Dear Superintendent, As one of more than 16,000 superintendents leading school districts across […]

Filed Under: Federalized Education Tagged With: Anne Gassel, federalism, Future Ready District Pledge, local control in education, Missouri Education Watchdog, U.S. Department of Education

Missouri Governor Signs Bill to Review and Replace Common Core

July 15, 2014 By Shane Vander Hart

Gretchen Logue of Missouri Education Watchdog reported late yesterday afternoon that Governor Jay Nixon signed HB 1490 into law.  He had until August 28th to sign the bill or veto the bill.  He could have also let the bill go into effect without his signature.  The bill will keep the Common Core State Standards in […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Anne Gassel, Common Core State Standards, Gretchen Logue, HB 1490, Jay Nixon, Missouri Coalition Against Common Core, Missouri Education Watchdog, Missouri Legislature

Anne Gassel’s Common Core Action List

August 26, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

This weekend I spoke this weekend at an event called “Exposing the Common Core” in Collinsville, IL (outside of St. Louis, MO).  Anne Gassel, the co-editor of Missouri Education Watchdog, also spoke.  I gave an overview of the Common Core and problems I had with it.  She presented an action list which I really liked […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Anne Gassel, Common Core State Standards, Missouri Education Watchdog

Missouri Common Core Transparency Bill Passes Out of Committee

May 14, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

The Missouri House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee passed SB 210 out of committee on a 17-0 vote yesterday after a 2 hour-long public hearing which included 900 written witness statements by those who supported the bill and testimony by the Missouri Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro who I was told didn’t really address the content […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: Chris Nicastro, Common Core State Standards, data collection, Gretchen Logue, Jay Nixon, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Missouri Education Watchdog, Missouri House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee, Missouri Senate

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