Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA)

Letter to Northern Lebanon School District providing notification of a parent's complaint of a violation of FERPA rights.

This excerpt from the Federal Register provide general guidelines for accepting “signed and dated written consent” under FERPA in electronic form.

Letter to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities clarifying FERPA requirements related the National Student Clearinghouse Degree Verify service. 

Letter to the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education regarding record matching for reporting requirements of the Federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. 

Letter to Pennsylvania Department of Education responding to a request for guidance regarding whether a described memorandum of understanding for access to student records violates the requirements of FERPA. 

Letter to the Alabama Department of Education responding to questions on whether FERPA prohibited the sharing of students' immunization records with the state department of health. 

Letter responding to the California Department of Education's request for guidance on disclosing student records to officials in the California Department of Health Services, who are conducting a study. 

Letter to Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District (CA) reporting a possible conflict between FERPA and California Education Code § 76031.

A letter in response to a school district request on whether FERPA permits the District to release certain information in education records related to one student to the parents of another student. 

Letter to the Georgia Board of Regents on whether FERPA permits the release certain information from education records to the press under Georgia's Open Records Act.