What do you Know About H.R. 4174?

Conservatives declared that CommonCore was bad for education and needed to be terminated in all states. Sadly, in many cases it was just renamed.

Are you fine with social engineering in education? Are you good with peer to peer teaching? Are you aware of the changing syllabus and use of textbooks? Did you know the data on you, the family and the student is being collected from pre-Kindergarten all the way through entry into the workforce? How about medical and personal data being sold to third parties for a profit without your knowledge or approval? Can you opt out? Nope.

It appears the government believes it now owns individual military data, IRS data, Census data, and all citizen-level data in any federal agency. One exception to this ownership assumption exists in medical data, which as defined and protected by HIPPA, belongs to the patient (or their guardian).  However, medical data is “leaking” into other data streams such as education data. This blurs the lines for HIPPA protections and allows medical information to become part of the integrated, government data system.

USPIE’s primary mission is to close the U.S. Department of Education, repeal all federal education mandates and return control of education to parents and local communities.  Our efforts include protecting the privacy of student data from government-directed collection, integration, and sharing^. Big data is big business and America’s children are not for sale. More here.

Do you as a taxpayer have a voice in this legislation? Are there are protections to the data regarding you?

So, what is P20W anyway?

Data governance is both an organizational process and a structure. It establishes

responsibility for data, organizing program area/agency staff to collaboratively and

continuously improve data quality through the systematic creation and enforcement of

policies, roles, responsibilities, and procedures. Data governance is necessary for creating

clear roles and responsibilities for each member of the project team.

This document relates to P-20W or interagency data governance rather than K12 or

intra-agency data governance. While there are many similarities in structure and process

between inter- and intra-agency data governance, there are key differences. For example,

among the various P-20W agencies, there are varying security requirements, data uses,

reporting requirements, and timelines. There is also a different, broader research agenda at

the P-20W level. (See Figures 1 and 2, next page, for depictions of single agency vs. P-20W

data governance structures.)

When data governance is effectively established, the quality of data collected, reported, and

used by state and local education agencies (SEAs and LEAs)—as well as early childhood,

postsecondary, and other agencies (Department of Labor, Department of Health, etc.)—

is enhanced; staff burden is reduced; and communication, collaboration, and relationships

with the various agencies, information technology (IT) staff, and program areas are

improved.

H.R. 4174 was introduced by Congressman Paul Ryan and co-sponsored by Trey Gowdy. Yep…believe it. What is really shady is the legislation was not in the education committee…

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