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.

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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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Recorded Webinars

Intersection of FERPA and IDEA Confidentiality Provisions - March 2012

This webinar discusses how the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) interacts with IDEA Part B Confidentiality provisions.

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Tech Brief #3: Statistical Methods for Protecting Personally Identifiable Information in Aggregate Reporting

This Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Technical Brief examines what protecting student privacy means in a reporting context.

Letters

Letter to School District re: SES Providers Contacting Parents

Letter to a school district providing assurance that Approved Supplemental Educational Providers are not prohibited by FERPA from contacting parents and guardians of students served in SES programs in previous years.

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Letters

Letter to Minnesota Department of Children, Families, and Learning Regarding CAPTA - November 2006

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to Minnesota's alleged child abuse reporting and investigation laws pursuant to the Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA),

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Letters

Letter to Special Education Provider Regarding Accrediting Organizations - January 2006

Letter addressing the applicability of FERPA to the disclosure of special education records to an accrediting organization by an entity that provides special education programs for students referred by local school districts.

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Letter to Tazewell County (VA) School Board re: Unauthorized Access to Education Record Systems

Reponse to the Tazewell County, Virginia School Board regarding a plan for a shared computer network which would potentially allow electronic student educational records to be accessed by persons or entities not employed by the school system.

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Letter to North Dakota Assistant Attorney General Regarding Matching Education and Employment Records - June 2005

Letter regarding the applicability of FERPA to the SEA redisclosing personally identifiable information from students' education records to an outside entity for matching purposes.

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Letter re: conflict between Nevada law and FERPA

The letter to the Clark County School District regarding potential conflict between Nevada law regarding the release of certain education records to the Clark County Child Death Review Team.

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Letter to University of North Alabama re: Disability Office Records

Letter in response to the University of North Alabama regarding the applicability of the FERPA to records maintained by its Office of Developmental Services.

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