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State extends contract with company that lost West Aurora, Kaneland schools information

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Dissent

Do training using real data?  Neither necessary nor smart…. and yet their contract is extended?

Matt Brennan reports:

West Aurora and Kaneland were the only school districts in the Fox Valley impacted when two laptop computers were recently stolen that contained the personal information of more than 10,000 students and staff from 42 school districts across northern Illinois, according to a list provided by the Illinois State Board of Education.

The laptops were stolen sometime between 7 p.m. June 7 and 7:30 a.m. June 8 from a car in Palatine. The computers belonged to the Harrisburg Project, an ISBE subcontractor which manages data for the ISBE for special education reimbursement purposes.

“They were up there training school district staff on how to do data entry,” ISBE spokesman Matt Vanover said.

The training was being done with real data, according to Vanover.

“That information (from school students and staff members) would have been visible,” he said.

Read more in The Beacon-News.

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