MO DESE Ed Commissioner’s SAS awarded contract for data mining Missouri students under the new MSIP6 growth model.
Missouri DESE’s Education Commissioner, Margie Vandeven’s previous employer, SAS, is now the data mining company in charge of DESE’s new growth model data. This just happened.
What is SAS?
They specialize in data mining and AI (artificial intelligence).
Margie Vandeven was employed at SAS as the Director of Educational Partnerships - State and Local Government in 2018. Vandeven served in that role at SAS after she was removed from the position of Missouri DESE Education Commissioner under Governor Greitens’s new State Board of Education.
Once Greitens left office, the State Board of Education under President Charlie Shields brought Vandeven back to be the Missouri DESE Education Commissioner once again.
Maybe there is something to this tweet?
Learn more about State Board of Education President Charlie Shields here 👇
And here 👇
So what is going on now?
In Fall 2023, Margie Vandeven announced that she will be resigning from her position as Missouri DESE Commissioner and finishing out her role until July 2024.
What damage will she do on her way out?
Margie Vandeven’s DESE has awarded her previous data mining employer, SAS, the contract to manage the “growth data” from DESE’s new measuring version under MSIP6.
This is data mining children’s information on steroids. This is why Vandeven wants the growth model & testifies at senate hearing defending DESE’s new rules.
She has to leave DESE with SAS at the helm.
Was there an RFP? Is there a conflict of Interest?
Vandeven’s SAS was just announced last week.
Vandeven is even quoted in a KCTV article concerning the SAS data mining partnership.
Senator Curtis Trent wants DESE’s Growth Model to be MANDATED in Public Schools and Charter Schools with his bill SB 84.
This is why Trent passed language last year to allow child PII (personally identifiable information) to be used by vendors, contractors, etc. He sold it as protecting them but if you actually READ the Bill, it does the opposite.
Read this 👇
Vandeven is also the President Elect of Common Core pushers, CCSSO.
Council of Chief State Officers.
CCSSO also wants the growth model Vandeven is pushing on her way out.
Read more about Vandeven’s CCSSO here 👇
So why is this all a big deal?
Is this a pay to play scheme?
It’s extremely unethical and should be challenged.
Not only did Margie Vandeven bring the new “growth model” to Missouri under MSIP6, she brought her previous employer, SAS, in to be the overseer of said data.
Is there a handsome reward for selling out the children of Missouri waiting for Vandeven after July 2024? And executive position with SAS at one of their international locations? One by a beach?
What can you do?
Call your House Representative and Senator and asked to pass legislation this session to finally reign in DESE once and for all.
Jill Carter’s SB 814 is the only legislation this 2024 that can start that process. It frees the children from MSIP and DESE’s burdensome mandates in the classroom on teachers.