By Audience: Early Childhood Educators

Letter to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars about the applicability of FERPA to disclosures to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. 

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

Letter responding to a parent requesting guidance on provisions in FERPA that govern a parent's opportunity to seek amendment of the education records of a special education student. 

Letter to Northern Lebanon School District providing notification of a parent's complaint of a violation of FERPA rights.

This excerpt from the Federal Register provide general guidelines for accepting “signed and dated written consent” under FERPA in electronic form.

Letter to the Alabama Department of Education responding to questions on whether FERPA prohibited the sharing of students' immunization records with the state department of health. 

A letter in response to a school district request on whether FERPA permits the District to release certain information in education records related to one student to the parents of another student. 

This document explains some of the major legislative changes made to FERPA over its 40 year history.  It was last updated in June of 2002.

Letter to a parent explaining that photographs of students taken by a teacher with his or her personal device are not "education records" because they are not maintained by the school.