We Need Better Education Policy. Summit Public Schools Shows Why. - Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, & Anna Noble

This means that SPS alone defined the terms relevant to the collection, use, sharing and securing of student data in its system.80 The three privacy and security addenda that SPS provided (with the companies Airbrake, 12 of 47 Mode, and Pusher) specify SPS as the legal owner of its students’ data.81 They require au- dits of the third-party providers. [...] In addition, throughout our research efforts, SPS consistently maintained that “to the extent activities relating to the Summit Learning Program and the Summit Learning Platform are unrelated to the operation of an SPS school, they are exempt from the Public Records Act.”108 But the fact is that SPS created the Summit Learning Program and the Summit Learning Platform for use in its schools, and it. [...] Unsurprisingly, given the confluence of aligned worldview and po- tential profit, funders such as the Gates Foundation and Facebook/CZI embraced the oppor- tunity to support and mold the development of the Summit Learning Program and to market it to schools around the country. [...] Conclusion and Recommendations Summit Public Schools (SPS) provides a powerful example of the need to provide oversight and accountability to protect the public interest and to ensure the transparency of digital educational programs. [...] Retrieved August 10, 2023, from 23 When Summit Public Schools (SPS) administered the Summit Learning Program, the “About Us” page on the Summit Learning website included a history of SPS and the Summit Learning Program, a description of the Summit Learning Program, and statistics about SPS students’ outcomes: “100% Eligible For 4-Year Col.