Mark Walsh reports: The U.S. Department of Education has found that Success Academy Charter Schools violated the federal student privacy law by disclosing personally identifiable information from the education records of a student in a controversy over the charter network’s suspension practices. The department’s Student Privacy Policy Office wrote to Success Academy founder and CEO…
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Success Academy released psychologists’ notes about a former student. Now, the family has filed a federal complaint.
Alex Zimmerman reports: A former Success Academy parent filed a federal privacy complaint Thursday claiming the charter network violated her daughter’s rights by releasing her education records to a reporter, including notes from psychologists and her special education learning plan. The complaint — which is unlikely to result in consequences for Success — comes in…
NY: Why Did the Head of Success Academy Publish a Student’s Disciplinary Record?
Michelle Goldberg reports: Anyone who has reported on campus sexual assault knows that school administrations rarely respond, even when they feel unfairly maligned, because they fear violating the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA. Passed in 1974, FERPA is a federal law that bans the release of students’ personal information without their consent. “Schools…