By Audience: Early Childhood Educators

The resources on this page are intended for staff and educators of Early Childhood programs or institutions. Resources found here address the unique challenge of applying FERPA to the early childhood setting.

Guidance and Best Practices

Written Agreement Checklist

This document lists mandatory requirements for written agreements under the studies exception and the audit or evaluation exception, as specified in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

Guidance and Best Practices

Case Study #2: Head Start Program

This case study illustrates a scenario where a State educational agency enters into an agreement to share education data with a Head Start Program.

Guidance and Best Practices

Checklist: Data Governance

This checklist is designed to assist stakeholder organizations with establishing and maintaining a successful data governance program by summarizing the key data privacy and security components of such a program and listing specific best practice action items.

Recorded Webinars

Transparency Best Practices for Schools and Districts - September 2014

This webinar presents a number of best practices for schools and districts to use for communicating with parents about student data.

Guidance and Best Practices

FERPA/IDEA Cross-Walk

This document is a side-by-side comparison of the legal provisions and definitions in IDEA Part B, IDEA Part C and FERPA. It is intended to help differentiate these statutes and provide a comparisons for the shared definitions.

Guidance and Best Practices

FERPA Exceptions Summary (Apr 2014) - 2-page Standard Size

The various exceptions to FERPA can be confusing and difficult to keep track of. The FERPA Exceptions Summary is intended to be a handy visual aid to help identify, at a glance, what FERPA exception applies to the data sharing work you are trying to do.

Guidance and Best Practices

FERPA Exceptions Summary - Large Format 11 X 17

The various exceptions to FERPA can be confusing and difficult to track. The FERPA Exceptions Summary is intended to be a handy visual aid to help identify, at a glance, what FERPA exception applies to the data sharing work you are trying to do.

Guidance and Best Practices

Data De-identification: An Overview of Basic Terms

This document is intended to assist educational agencies and institutions with maintaining compliance with privacy and confidentiality requirements under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) by reviewing basic terminology used to describe data de-identification as well as related concepts and approaches.

Guidance and Best Practices

Frequently Asked Questions - Disclosure Avoidance

This document is intended to provide general guidance to State and local educational agencies and institutions about the best practice strategies for protecting personally identifiable information from education records in aggregate reports. The paper provides suggestions on how to ensure that necessary confidentiality requirements are met, including compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The information is presented in the form of responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs), followed by a list of additional resources at the end.

Guidance and Best Practices

Data Breach Response Checklist

This publication provides educational agencies and institutions with a checklist of critical breach response components and steps to assist stakeholder organizations in building a comprehensive data breach response capability. The checklist is meant to be used as a general example illustrating some current industry best practices in data breach response and mitigation applicable to education community.

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