Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education is appointing a task force to monitor data-sharing in the wake of the Department of Education’s partnership with inBloom, a database created to track student progress, The Times-Picayune reports. Citing parent and student concerns about the potential for others to access private student data, the report quotes Education Superintendent John White’s comments that the department data will not be sold to outside companies and will be secured behind firewalls. “We're not suggesting this is a perfect process,” he said. "But we hope we can get to a point where the public understands and trusts that this is being done the right way."
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