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Many NY progressive groups are becoming increasingly concerned over the contract granted to Wireless Generation by the NYState Education Department. Wireless Generation is an education technology company that was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. in November 2010. Murdoch hired former NY schools chancellor, Joel Klein, to be apart of News Corp’s Education Division in order to help with strategies he believes will transform the field of education. Klein and Murdoch both believe in Wireless Generation, which develops software and tools that track student test scores and modernizes data available to administrators and teachers. Many educators and progressive groups strongly agree that this program is faulty and ineffective.

According to Alter Net, these critics of Wireless Generation want the no-bid contract with the state education department to be completely overhauled. Many believe it is wrong that the company is able to access data about city students, including age, name ethnicity, and test scores. Parents are even more concerned that this information is being compiled by a Murdoch-owned company because of the recent hacking scandal at his News of The World.

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