PowerSchool will soon delete all of its data on North Carolina students and most of its data on teachers.
The State Board of Education approved a $415,000 contract with the California company Thursday to transfer the data to a new company and delete it at PowerSchool.
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The state Department of Public Instruction is now using Infinite Campus for its statewide information system.
PowerSchool was hacked late last year, exposing the personal data of millions of the state's current and former students and teachers.
The state still has a contract with the company for tracking teacher hiring, though the state board shortened that contract last month.
It's standard practice in technology to delete data from an old system when transferring to a new system, said Vanessa Wrenn, DPI's chief information officer. But Wrenn said she knows at least some of the people affected worldwide in the December hack were people whose school districts weren't even customers anymore of PowerSchool -- their district hadn't gone through the deletion process.
Wrenn said she wanted to make sure that didn't happen in North Carolina. The state will pay $65,000 for deletion, including a certificate of data deletion and attestation.
The contract stipulates that the data transition be completed by Aug. 31.