By Audience: Early Childhood Educators

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

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.

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),  

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. 

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. 

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

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. 

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

Letter in response to a parent complaint alleging a School District violated the parent's FERPA rights.