Public support for data release

The Herald reports:

The majority of people polled think schools should publicly release their national standards performance data.

Results from a Herald-Digipoll survey showed 60.3 per cent of people agreed that schools should be forced to release the information.

The survey showed that people aged 18-39 years old were overwhelmingly supportive of the idea, with 70.4 per cent wanting data released.

While the last time I looked Labour’s policy was to amend the Official Information Act so educational data is suppressed and not made publicly accessible.