FERPA
The acronym for FERPA.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act?
This acronym represents TOMA.
What is the Texas Open Meetings Act?
The acronym for TPIA.
What is Texas Public Information Act?
The right to privacy in laymen's terms.
What is a right to be left alone?
FERPA is also known as this amendment.
What is the Buckley Amendment?
The Texas Open Meetings Act stated in general terms.
What is all meeting of the governmental bodies, such as school boards, must be open to the public?
In order to ensure that school districts do not withhold information from the public based on their opinion of what is good for the pubic to know or not know.
Why does does TPIA exist?
School computers, pagers, file cabinets, etc.
The viewing, reviewing, and disclosure of student records.
What does FERPA regulate?
The minimum number of members of a governing group that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid.
What is a quorum?
This is public information.
What is information that is written, produced, collected, assembled, or maintained under a law or ordinance in connection with official business by or for a governmental body for which the governmental body expends public funds, has a right of access, or owns?
What are the 4th and 14th amendments?
The case which the court ruled that parents are allowed access to all administrative notes and records concerning their child’s behavior and conduct. The parents have the right to question the accuracy of the records and request an amendment.
What is Lett v. Klein ISD, 1996?
Members of a governmental body to knowingly conspire to circumvent by meeting in numbers less than a quorum for the purpose of secret deliberations.
What is considered a criminal offense?
A number that is exempt from the TPIA.
What is the social security numbers of school district employees?
Unless a parent presents a “bona fide philosophical religious belief", schools have a right to enforce it.
What is a dress code or uniform?
McGilvray v. Moses, 1999- A teacher in Boyd ISD made a list of 42 students and labeled them with attitude problems and then gave the list to a juvenile probation officer. The list contained personally identifiable information and the probation officer was not employed by the district and should not have seen the information.
How a teacher violated FERPA?
The fifth Circuit ruled that government officials have no right to talk public policy among a quorum of their governmental body in private.
What is Asgeirsson vs. Abbott?
Abbott v. North East I.S.D., 2006.
What is the evaluation of documents that belong to a certified administrator or teacher cannot be released to the public and this includes a document from a principal?
To search a student's belongings a school professional must have it.