FERPA Facts
FERPA rights transfer from parents to the student when the student reaches this age or attends a school beyond high school.
What is 18?
Schools should require this legal document before allowing EdTech providers to access student data.
What is a data privacy agreement?
This role in a school district is often responsible for overseeing student data privacy compliance.
What is a Data Privacy Officer?
This is the year FERPA was enacted to protect the privacy of student education records.
What is 1974?
This federal law, enacted in 1990 and reauthorized in 1997 and 2004, ensures that children with disabilities receive a free appropriate public education tailored to their unique needs.
What is IDEA?
Under FERPA, schools can release this type of information, such as a student's name or participation in sports, without written consent unless parents opt out.
What is directory information?
Apps collecting student data must comply with this law if they are marketed to children under 13.
What is COPPA?
Encryption is a key tool in protecting student data during this process.
What is transmission?
This landmark law, passed in 1990, prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including schools, workplaces, and public accommodations.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
In 1955, John McCarthy coined this term to describe the capability of machines to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence.
What is AI?
FERPA applies to all schools that receive funding from this federal department.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
Teachers and staff should avoid using this type of tool unless it has been approved by the district.
What is an educational resource?
This type of third-party audit helps confirm that a vendor is meeting their data privacy obligations.
What is a security audit?
This act requires districts to develop policies to protect student data and privacy in the use of educational technology.
What is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)?
This U.S. law protects student education records and parental rights to access them.
What is FERPA?
Schools can share education records without consent in this type of situation.
What is an emergency?
Unauthorized access and alteration of educational records through technology is known by this term.
What is hacking?
Schools must have a policy in place to do this when data breaches occur.
What is notify parents?
Before FERPA, educational records were often seen as this type of property, limiting parental access.
What is the school’s property?
This European regulation has had a significant influence on global data privacy practices, including educational data.
What is the GDPR?
FERPA grants these two groups the right to access and review a student's education records.
Who are parents and eligible students?
This certification program ensures EdTech vendors meet high standards for student data protection.
What is the Student Privacy Pledge?
This federal department enforces FERPA and handles complaints about violations.
What is the U.S. Department of Education?
This emerging technology in schools is raising new privacy concerns due to its ability to collect biometric data.
What is facial recognition?
This federal agency investigates large-scale cyberattacks on K-12 institutions.
What is the FBI?