Jill Riepenhoff reports: To shed light on public records being held secret by many U.S. colleges, the Student Press Law Center is urging students everywhere to flood their schools with requests to see their own education records. The goal of the campaign is to show what the center’s director says is hypocrisy by colleges in…
Tag: FERPA
A tale of two FERPA’s
I’ve been somewhat foaming at the keyboard over a student privacy issue in Oklahoma whereby the state required parents and students to waive their federally protected privacy rights in order to secure an educational benefit. As I blogged previously, the waiver was overly broad, it did not clearly explain that the state would post identifiable…
Where will your kids be when the perfect storm occurs?
The perfect storm is on the horizon. Is there still time for American parents to protect their children from it? I watched it start years ago with school districts amassing tons of sensitive and personal information on children and their parents. Rather than prohibiting data collection or the use of Social Security numbers, however, the…
OK: State education board needs to reach compromise on student appeals information
Last week I noted a situation in Oklahoma that I found infuriating. In short, parents of students who sought an exemption from state law so that they could be granted a high school diploma were provided with a waiver form that waived their rights under FERPA, the federal law that protects the privacy of students’…