Back to Basics
This is what FERPA stands for.
What is Family Education Rights and Privacy Act?
Student's name, parent's name, address of the student or student's family, social security number, student ID number, a list of personal characteristics or other information that would make the student's identity easily traceable. . .
What are examples of personally identifiable information?
This student has reached the age of 18 or attends a school beyond high school level and FERPA rights have transferred to the student.
What is an "eligible student" under FERPA law?
This school opened in 1995 and is Parkway's most recently built.
What is Southwest Middle School?
This is how often local education agencies must notify parents about FERPA.
What is annually?
FERPA is a law that ensures parental access to the "education records" of their children while protecting the confidentiality of those records from third parties without having first obtained this.
What is parental consent?
Request and inspect their child's record, request to amend the record if they believe it's inaccurate, disallow any disclosures of directory information and file a complaint with the US Department of Education regarding the district's failure to comply with FERPA.
What are parental rights under FERPA?
If an education record includes information about other children, this must occur prior to disclosure.
What is remove the information about other children?
This school was Parkway's first elementary school.
What is Barretts Elementary?
If a school district refuses to amend an education record at the request of a parent, the parent has a right to this.
What is a formal hearing?
These types of records are records which contain information directly related to a student and are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency.
What are education records?
Student's name, address, telephone number, date and place of birth, honors and awards, and dates of attendance.
What are examples of directory information?
In addition to the custodial parents, FERPA gives these parents full rights to access student records.
Who are noncustodial parents?
Current enrollment in Parkway is approximately 17,500 students, but it crept all the way up to 24,000+ students in this decade.
What is the 1970s?
This means to permit access to, or the release, transfer or other communication of personally identifiable information contained in education records to any party, by any means, including oral, written or electronic.
What is disclosure?
Law enforcement records, employment records, medical records, alumni records and sole possession records.
What records are NOT considered to be educational records according to FERPA law?
Directory information, legitimate educational interest, emergencies relating to safety and health, complying with subpoenas or judicial orders, records requests from other schools where a student seeks to enroll or transfer and supplying information to federal, state or local education authorities in connection with federal, state or locally-supported education programs.
What are exceptions to the prohibition against release of personally identifiable information?
Federal law stipulates that requested information from a parent must be provided within this timeframe, even though some states require a shorter amount of time.
What is within 45 days?
The westward migration to St. Louis County during this decade made Parkway the fastest growing district in the state.
What is the 1960s? (2724 students in 1960 and 18585 in 1969)
These are records that are kept in the sole possession of the maker, used only as a personal memory aid (such as teacher reminder notes about a student) and are not accessible or revealed to any other person except a temporary substitute for the maker of the record.
What are sole possession records?
Implementing an action plan to ensure compliance, loss of federal education funding and the possibility of a lawsuit.
What are possible consequences of FERPA violations?
Student health and immunization records that are maintained by the school or district as well as school nurse and medical records relating to students receiving services under IDEA are subject to FERPA and not to this law.
What is HIPAA?
If a parent makes a request to inspect and review education records, this official should be notified.
Who is the school principal?
This elementary school opened in 1971, closed in 1982 and then reopened in 1985 as part of West High/Early Childhood Center; then in 1991, the whole building became the Early Childhood Center.
What is Clayton Woods?
While the law does not require personal notification of FERPA rights to individuals, it does require the notification to be in this type of a location.
What is where it is likely to be seen?