Connor Smith reports:
Six months after a massive data breach that impacted students, families and school staff around the country – including each school district in Southeastern North Carolina – the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) has renewed part of its contract with the company at the center of the breach.
On Monday, the North Carolina State Board of Education approved a six-month, roughly $270,000 contract with PowerSchool for professional evaluations and onboarding services. The contract, NCDPI noted, isn’t related to the student information system, which was hacked in December. That system’s contract will expire at the end of June and won’t be renewed.
Read more at WECT.
Update: Doug Levin tells me that this change was in the works before the breach and is unrelated to the breach, so although it may have appeared that the contact non-renewal was related, it wasn’t.